Word: shaded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Marriage, they slowly discover, means piling up dishes, stretching pennies, squabbling over whether or not to move in with Colin's aging grandma. But Rita's only real concern is the precise shade of her hair. "They done it pink champagne instead of pink platinum," she whines, grieving over a fake-blonde pompadour that makes her look like a malicious caricature of Princess Margaret. Her young husband eventually finds more comfortable companionship with a motorcycling mate, Dudley Sutton, who all but steals the movie as a butchy, baby-faced homo in hood's clothing. In the boys...
...records, Alpert plays both parts of the trumpet duet, achieves a two-dimensional effect by slightly altering the synchronization and recording one trumpet line a shade sharp or flat by a process he keeps secret in order to discourage the many imitators that have cropped up in the wake of the Tijuana Brass's success. And aficionados of pure mariachi, who once scorned Ameriachi, are now buying it. One of the ten best-selling records in Mexico City last week was the Tijuana Brass's Whipped Cream...
...villagers hailed me as they were heading off into the forest, and invited me to come along. We We walked to a small clearing where two palm trees had been felled, and they collected the palm wine from gourds that had been under the cut. We sat in the shade and drank the palm wine. One of the men explained to me, half joking, the importance of this drink to village life. It's cheap--25 francs for a groundful. In the morning, the men eat a little manioc, and empty a gourd of palm wine. Then, juiced up, they...
...Jilting, her grandmother is dying, and the story concludes with an eerie and wonderful description of death. "The blue light from the lamp shade drew into a tiny point in the center of her brain. Granny lay curled down within herself, amazed and watchful, staring at the point of light that was herself. It flickered and winked like an eye, quietly it fluttered and dwindled. God, give a sign! There was no sign. She stretched herself with a deep breath and blew out the light...
Mindful of Lyndon's pride in signing bills in the most appropriate possible place, Iowa's H. R. Gross suggested sourly that the President might hold the beautification-bill ceremony on Route 290 outside Austin, in the shade of a billboard advertising the Johnsons' TV and radio station. (The gibe was late; KTBC had removed the blurb last month.) Protested Illinois' Donald Rumsfeld, who supported the bill: "The Democrats were allowing no time to debate constructive amendments. All we could do was get up and hiccup. That's a helluva lousy way to legislate...