Word: sailorful
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...cloud itself was kind of rough," wrote a sailor, "yet it looked smooth - something like a cauliflower." Poets were not invited to Operation Ivy to witness the dawn of the hydrogen age, so it was as a cauliflower that the H-bomb's first cloud was trademarked last week - a realistic if nonpoetic progression in vegetables from the A-bomb's first mushroom...
...Elsa Schiaparelli. The struggle lasted ten years. In 1938, almost overnight, the women of Paris, followed sheeplike by the women of the world, turned from Coco to the invader from Italy, with her exaggerated feminine conceits, her tassels, her flaming colors and "parachute" silhouettes. "Chanel wanted the tricot sailor frock with the long sweater, the short skirt," says Schiaparelli. "I took the frock. I altered the line . . . Voilà! Chanel ees feeneesh...
...After 90 minutes of it, as he was pushing his way through the crowd, a sailor who had been one of his most persistent hecklers offered him a box of throat lozenges. " 'Ere, guv'nor," he said. " 'Ave one. I bet yer need it after that." "Thanks, chum," replied the Rev. Donald Soper, president of the Methodist Church in Britain...
...TATTOOED SAILOR (115 pp.)-André François-Knopf...
...Tattooed Sailor, on the other hand, is vintage humor. It is a hilarious one-man cartoon show by Rumanian-born André François who sounds an unmistakably original note in the cacophony of cartoon comedy. Cartoonist François humor is pointed, whimsical, completely loufoque and never unkind. His sailor hero has been tattooed into a state of ineffable euphoria, making him inseparable from his lovely Lilly and probably inadmissible to the U.S., but only on moral grounds...