Word: ring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Strange things happened at the Big Red Mixer at the Union Saturday night. Before the evening was over, a diamond ring valued at $800 and 12 wallets had been reported missing...
Barbara Jones, a freshman at Wheaton College, discovered that the ring was missing at about 9:30 p.m. She thinks she may have lost it while dancing the "monkey," but, a careful search after the dance failed to produce the ring...
Last week's race was, as usual, a ten-ring circus. The brassy oompah of Otto-Otto Kermbach's band thundered the Sportpalast Waltz-a ditty whose magic lies in the fact that every few bars the audience can join in with three short, shrill whistles. When enough beer and schnapps had flowed (nightly sales total 18,000 glasses of each), spectators swarmed onto the infield to dance. Fist fights flared in the smoky upper reaches of the grandstands, known as the "hayloft." The occupants of this low-cost Olympus exercise dictatorial power over the groundlings, demanding...
...from a grafting vice-squad detective; 2) the 14 Stations of the Cross; 3) the nightly rounds of a nurse; 4) the comfort stations at the subway stops. Every step of the book is dense in meanings and associations, helped on by rhymes, incantatory metrical effects, and puns that ring with a wild echolalia. The result is a fierce compression that largely explains the book's partial success...
...that uses only stills and motion footage from archives. Its first segment moved swiftly, panoptically, and about as informatively as was possible in 30 minutes devoted to nothing less than all the causes and early events of the conflict. The pictures of Gallipoli and the Lusitania, young Göring and old Hindenburg were absorbing enough, but the best moments came in unexpected footnotes, such as Sigmund Freud's declaring: "All my libido is given to Austria-Hungary...