Word: slung
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cisitalia (Italy): a sleek, low-slung car with a grill resembling "the cut end of a cigar...
When the smugglers have gone, Johnnie starts to skedaddle home, and accidentally tweaks off the corpse's beard, whereupon he notices a locket slung around the fleshless neck. Inside the locket is a ciphered message that leads, after two murders and a mort of escapes and chases, to a diamond "as big as a pigeon's egg" that lies hidden in the wall of an ancient well in Caris-brooke Castle. Thence away to a fence for such merchandise in The Hague, who cheats poor Johnnie out of his diamond and lands him aboard a brig bound...
...Western powers are mostly content to let the Viennese policemen take care of their own zones. The Russians, though, march around their bezirks with grim-looking submachine guns slung over their shoulders...
...wanders around, reads (and makes appropriate cracks at) his fan mail, eats delicacies sent in by women fans, chats with members of the audience, plays the piano or other instruments, brings on guest performers, acts out "sight gags," e.g., chatting with Wanda the Walking Doll, interviewing a man while slung over his back...
Gromaire's impressionistic Manhattan, on show in Paris last week, is an overwhelming place. His Brooklyn Bridge is a gigantic stone and steel hammock slung between topless towers. Times Square at Night is a glaring latticework of light and darkness. "The shock of Times Square was almost brutal," Gromaire says. "I have seen photos and colored prints of the 'Great White Way,' but they are empty and meaningless when compared with reality...