Word: ribboning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shares were offered in the U.S., where the Securities and Exchange Commission does not permit Cornfeld to operate because he refuses to submit to normal SEC scrutiny. Nonetheless, a blue-ribbon team of U.S. and foreign investment bankers underwrote the issue. Led by Manhattan's Drexel Harrison Ripley, the syndicate included France's Banque Rothschild, Britain's Hill Samuel, and Manhattan's Smith, Barney...
...still scared. Then when it started to come on, I thought, "How could such beautiful stuff hurt me?" I really dig acid raps. That's when you talk to the cat you took acid with about anything that comes into your mind. Once a big Day-Glo ribbon materialized and hovered three or four inches above the ground. It was about 7 ft. long and 2 ft. thick. Everything that I was going to say was written on that ribbon in pink letters before I was going to say it, so I just read the ribbon to talk. Acid...
...pays Crane the usual tribute of trying to understand him in perspective. This isn't always easy. The word was actually "made flesh" for Crane in love affairs with sailors. He threw typewriters out of windows. "I saw all the trees below his window festooned with the typewriter ribbon," a friend remembers. Still, Unterecker cautions, "if Crane tossed out of windows everything that his acquaintances have him tossing, most of America, half of Europe, and all of Mexico would still be littered with far-flung typewriters." He invaded the lives of his many good friends the way his parents...
...bemedaled uniforms testifying to their country's proud if sometimes painful past. Outside in the courtyard, drawn up on one side of a red carpet that stretched across the white gravel, stood a company of the Republican Guard, resplendent in their 19th century red-trimmed uniforms. Down the ribbon of carpet last week walked Georges Pompidou, the man to whom France has entrusted its destiny for the next seven years...
...Tufts University, a mustachioed triple honors graduate clumped onstage to receive his undergraduate degree, wearing, in addition to his black academic robe, sandals, white pants and a construction helmet with red ribbon attached. Dozens of graduating seniors at Brandeis proudly wore stenciled red fists -a symbol of dissent popular with Boston area student activists-attached to their robes. At Pomona College, something of the spirit of '69 was summed up by the class poet, James E. Rosenberg, who instead of a speech read a passionate poem of societal rebellion, replete with phallic imagery and four-letter bravado...