Word: snaking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mimi and her parents dash out of the dining room before the champagne is gone to get into the receiving line. Mal Fitch and his twelve-piece band, fixtures on the Dallas debutante scene, strike up some Glenn Miller. The guests snake out of the ballroom, through the foyer, to the front door, where fleets of limousines are still depositing the newly arrived. The men emerge crisp in white or black tie; the women are elegant in gowns of every description, occasionally worn under the pelt of some endangered species...
...million budget for the legislature goes to pay the salaries of its 1,000 employees. Ninety-three of those are sergeants at arms, who have been routinely dispatched to pick up laundry, chauffeur wives and, in one case, to feed live mice regularly to a pet snake belonging to former Assembly Speaker Bob Moretti. The majority of the legislative staff, of course, is engaged in legitimate work. But critics question the propriety, let alone the need, of hiring 200 new aides this year. Most of the 78 additional senate staff members, according to President Pro Tempore David Roberti, were needed...
...expanded program is expected to draw in at least $20 billion annually, and so financial institutions are pitching I.R.A.s with all the enthusiasm of oldtime snake-oil salesmen. Many advertisements promise investors that if they start saving now, they can be millionaires in their golden years. An ad run by Chase Manhattan Bank, for example, points out that a couple saving $4,000 annually will pile up $1.3 million after 30 years, if the interest rate stays at a 12% level...
...sort of snake-bit at this point," McLaughlin said. "We'll have to hang in there. Things will start going our way sooner or later...
There has been no revenge exacted for generations, but the collective arsenals seem undiminished. Dutch owns ten guns; his brother Elliott, who Dutch says was once "meaner than a striped snake," has 18. Belle has a .38, and another Hatfield, nearly 80, keeps a revolver in his office. When the mood strikes him, he swivels and fires into a stack of books in the corner. The people of the valley know from experience that some folks have a native wildness that is not to be trifled with. Even smiling, gracious Belle has a measure of congenital menace. Says her cousin...