Word: shishkebab
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...noon the two sets of ballots, skewered on a long needle and string like a kind of combined ecclesiastical shishkebab and necklace, were thrust into the chapel stove along with black chemical lares to send up a dark "no Pope" signal to the waiting crowds in St. Peter's Square. But the flue above the stove was broken, and black smoke seeped through the chapel, partially obscuring Michelangelo's famous frescoes. For a quarter of an hour, the assembled Cardinals coughed, covered their mouths and rubbed their eyes until two windows were opened to clear...
Bill Center, who shut down his raft-rental firm last year and went to work on a tree farm, is back in business on the Stanislaus River. He now employs 30 guides to take people on overnight trips, serving them shishkebab and strawberry shortcake for dinner. Says he: "Two years ago, I worked half time. Now it's time-and-a-half. We have rebounded with a bang...
...there are some 2,000 of these folks (8,000 more are still coming on the No. 10 bus and other conveyances) spreading their blankets, unpacking their Frisbees, getting one toke over the line and window-shopping the small army of pushcart food vendors already in business. There are shishkebab carts, doughnut-and-apple-juice carts, organic-bread carts and, later, one kimono-clad Occidental mixing onions, ground beef, celery and sweet peppers in a charcoal-fired wok (yummy). Suddenly, from behind a 20-ft.-high wall of amplifiers, one of the six bands strikes up "Keep on rockin...
McCarthy's calendar for the coming weeks is a campaign shishkebab of speeches, interviews, poetry readings and huddles with politicians and financial angels. Already hinted at on the lecture circuit and in talks with the press is a campaign strategy worthy of the arcane politician-poet. Among other things, McCarthy speaks of backing John Lindsay and George McGovern in areas where they could win convention delegates whose views are compatible with his own. Party regulars take a generally dim view of such unorthodoxy and because of it, few consider him a serious threat. Yet a Harris poll...
Above both entrances to Tommy's, signs proclaim that shishkebab is the specialty of the house. Blitman goes up ot the counter and asks for shishkebab. "We're all out," says Tommy. Shishkebab is a standing joke at Tommy's. They never serve it there. Blitman orders a hamburger plate. For only 85c he gets two hamburgers, one bun, two pads of butter, lettuce and tomato, mayonnaise, and french fries. A fifteen cent coke brings the price of dinner to one dollar even...