Word: sho
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Petroleum Consumption Curtailment Countermeasures adopted last March in Japan, which urged workers to set their thermostats at 28° C (82.4° F). Although the fashion has yet to catch on with the public, Energy Czar Masumi Esaki has been trying to promote what he calls the Sho-ene (save energy) Look-a short-sleeved suit, sans tie, which he wore to greet Carter last week in Tokyo...
...kind of Caribbean concoctions that come in gutted coconuts and topless pineapples; that was when, with the help of a little juice, Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville music came marimba-ing out of the loudspeakers. This is Florida, man! You may not be no pith helmet, mama honey, but I sho do lak the way you squeeze my tanning butter. Make that a double rum punch, bubbles. Me and my Foster Grants...
...ceremonial voodoo jewelry while working. Still, her religion so attached her to the artifacts that she resisted the request with a complaint to the Massachusetts commission against discrimination. Unfortunately, the issue she presented was left muddled: the airline compromised, permitting her to wear her voodoo jewelry with half sho"wing and the other half concealed. Questions: Is there not some limit to an individual's right to insist on private taste in dress while working for an employer doing business with the public? Where was fair play most faulted in the case of a New York City woman...
...Anno's Alphabet (Crowell; $6.95), Artist Mitsumasa Anno exhibits a gifted mind as well as hand. Twenty-six illustrations mount ingenious optical illusions in the shape of letters (see story head above-? 1974 by Fukuinkan-Sho-ten);on the opposite pages are objects beginning with those letters. With scrupulous detail Anno simultaneously dazzles, entertains and instructs in the best alphabet book of the year...
...Emperors, seated in their ceremonial robes like weighty butterflies. There is an exquisite passage from the Tale of Genji copied out on silver-dusted paper by the great 17th century calligrapher Konoe Nobutada. The screens include two designs of drying fish nets, probably by Kaihō Yūsho (1533-1615)-resplendent documents of the moment when Japanese painting, having absorbed its Chinese influences, became fully Japanese...