Word: rods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...life. One day, seized by a fit of automatic writing while staring at herself in a three-way mirror, she turns out a surreal prose poem called Lady Oracle that becomes a bestseller. Sudden celebrity as the author of Lady Oracle -which publishers promote as an irresistible blend of Rod McKuen and Kahlil Gibran-brings a blackmailer into Joan's life. Rather than face exposure of her multiple lives, Joan plans a fake accidental death by drowning. Thereafter, she hopes to resurface in a new life -one that will be "neat and simple, understated, even a little severe, like...
...troubled, and short-tempered Gauld treats them like a drill instructor faced with a platoon of left-footed recruits. He occasionally slaps and routinely humiliates the kids-with their parents' tacit consent-in a no-holds-barred effort to toughen them up and build their characters. "The rod is only wrong in the wrong hands," Gauld likes to say. When he finds that a student has what he considers a "bad attitude," Gauld may order him to wear a sign saying I ACT LIKE A BABY, or tell him to dig a 6-ft. by 6-ft. trench...
There are other objects that could convey to future Americans the majesty and the trivia, the glory and the pity of the current era. Some proposals: a la ser rod and a citizen's band radio; the Pill and Gatorade; a shoe from Natalia Makarova and a Frisbee; a Beatles' record and a segment from the Watergate tapes; a Big Mac hamburger and a chunk of moon rock. It says something about the vitality, not to say incoherence of the times, that the list could be endless - and fascinating in its contrasts...
...often so heavy and cumbersome that it is hard to see what advantage they offer over the oiled linen cape. Pieces of leather or waxed cotton are tightly stretched over a spokelike array of rattan or whalebone ribs; the ribs are attached by wires and hinges to a central rod so that the covering can be opened out or collapsed at will. It rarely works as planned. The ribs often lose elasticity when wet and crack when dried...
...come over to my house on weekends, and we would watch a horror movie on the GE television my great-grandmother had given me when I was eight. Once, when the channel selector knob on my parents' TV broke off, I used a pair of pliers to turn the rod around, proudly telling my folks what network they were watching as I recognized each show. I was five at the time...