Word: shaker
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Diners are emptying salt shakers into plastic packages-or taking the shaker itself-for home consumption. Even at tony establishments run by Manhattan's Restaurant Associates, well-to-do customers are making off with people-bags filled with everything from fruit to nutcrackers...
...Communists were more vigorous and popular than the American-backed Kuomintang, but also because "the inertia of tradition" did not permit Western-style solutions in China. Fairbank was of course right, and since that essay-as textbook writer, as target of the McCarthy campaign, as a mover and shaker in the field of Asian studies in the U.S.-he has stuck to his main theme. The great Confucian system of government that evolved by the 2nd century B.C. has resulted in a yawning cultural gap between East and West that is still responsible for much of the tension between them...
...longer a Christian at all: Sioux Indian Lawyer Vine Delorio. But the Indian activist "out of a Christian background ... offers North Americans a stirring call for society's repentance and reform." Whether or not he is a Christian in essence, that presumably qualifies him as a shaker...
Carl Withers, president of the Shaker Heights Republican Club, is one of the remaining loyalists: "I consider Watergate in the category almost of a fraternity prank, where the victim got his hand caught in a barrel of chestnuts. The hiding of the break-in by underlings was not the type of crime that merits such severe punishment-considering the good deeds President Nixon has accomplished." People who agree with Withers-and even many who take a less charitable view-believe that Nixon has suffered enough. But many others are not prepared to forgive or forget. According to a California Poll...
...sequins perhaps, but glitter and lots of it. Sprinkle glitter in shaker cans for the face. Plastic mirrors for bracelets. Reflecting collars, spangled spacesuits, and gloves with dog-pad mirror plates. Jobriath designs all the costumes himself. He considers the outfits an integral part...