Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Maginot Hilton. Ghana used to be known as the Gold Coast, and independence, in 1957, came with a silver lining. With cocoa exports thriving and the beginnings of a modern industrial plant, the country had $560 million in foreign currency reserves, boasted one of Africa's highest per capita incomes. Nkrumah squandered it on such expensive status symbols as an international jet airline, which loses almost twice as much money as it earns, and a $20 million international conference site which includes a bulletproof, bombproof, twelve-story apartment hotel that Accra wags call "the Maginot Hilton." To promote...
...Mutilated brings on a pair of New Orleans floozies who have had a falling-out. One is a dead-broke wino (Kate Reid) who has been barred from her room in the Silver Dollar Hotel. The other (Margaret Leighton) has suffered a "mutilation"-one of her breasts has been removed. Reid has al ready carved this sad fact on the wall outside Leighton's apartment. Bawdily, brutally proud of her own breasts, she has herself, of course, been carved up by life. Kate Reid gives a stridently able performance, but is too self-assured for an alcoholic, and this...
...ever been able to discover exactly how, when or even why the British decided to divide a pound of silver into 20 shillings and 240 pence, but everyone agrees that the system is a bedeviling bother. It irritates international bankers, confuses tourists and even sends British shoppers away muttering in frustration. To escape from its complicated structure (?2 8s. 6d. for a bottle of Scotch), many Commonwealth and former Commonwealth countries are switching to the decimal currency system used by 95% of the world's people. Barbados and other sterling bloc territories in the British West Indies converted...
...floor with a black lace bikini bottom and a purple beach robe with yellow trim. Really putting on the dog was Designer Ursula Lehnhardt, who wrapped her poodle Peppy in white mink and a collar studded with black dice, and Designer Larry Reiter, who dressed his wolfhound Czarina in silver lame and his whippet Isis in a $250 wild marabou coat dyed in bands of blue, purple, pink and orange...
...affair with his own personality: he takes himself for granted and spends his space telling about other people, places and ideas. And what people! Rexroth's book is a Who's Non-Who of every oddball in the nonEstablishment U.S. of the past generation-feminists, Wobblies, Free Silver men, free-love ladies, anarchists, proto-bolsheviks, pacifists, radicals, populists, vegetarians, ragged Utopians, prophets without portfolio and plain cranks. His record makes the current anti-Establishment of beatnik non-opters seem limp and goofy. " 'Free love, free liquor, free Mooney,' proclaimed the banners of my youth,"* Rexroth says...