Word: snarking
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They pursued him with subpoenas and summonses, with private dicks and dirty tricks and the costliest battery of lawyers ever assembled. Through twelve incredible years of litigation, Howard Robard Hughes Jr. remained the Great American Snark-invisible, unreachable, unpredictable...
...microphones become the pulpits from which bulletins and statements issue forth: ubiquitous, invisible cameras whisk us from the streets of Whittier to the airports of Latin America to the state rooms of the White House. the confusion is over-whelming, despite the feverish order De Antonio imposes on his snark hunt. Boyish Richard Nixons jostle elbows with thuggish images of President Nixons. But nowhere is the mystery of the man penetrated. He remains a totally unreal figure, a substance as shadowy as his own infamous five o'clock stubble...
LaRoche, McCaffrey & McCall has just picked up a half interest in Aqua Dynamics Corp. of Wareham, Mass., which cultivates oysters. Doyle Dane Bernbach agreed to purchase Snark Products Inc. (annual sales: $1,000,000), a New Jersey-based producer of low-priced ($125-$500) plastic-hulled sailboats. Quite naturally, the agency plans to handle Snark's advertising and capitalize on techniques that Chairman Bill Bernbach developed to plug a more famous low-priced product. D.D.B. hopes to establish Snark as "the Volkswagen of the sea." The agency also owns a 20% interest in Georg Jensen, an elegant Manhattan houseware...
...controlled drone. Even in its claim, Peking was deliberately vague. The Chinese ideograms for a rocket translate as "fire arrow," but Peking's English translator rendered them as "guided missile." In Western terms, a guided missile is an anachronism: one of those winged, jet-propelled vehicles, like the Snark and the Navaho, that American aerospace companies were working on before the ballistic missiles like Minuteman and Titan were developed in the late 1950s. Some Western sources think the Chinese used a copy of the Russian SS-4 missile, a true rocket propelled by liquid fuel and capable of carrying...
...Harvard and Kleist collections are from England, where the book-jacket first emerged from its lowly dust-wrapper status. Originally used by London booksellers to keep their wares free from fog and grime, the book-jacket underwent a crucial metamorphosis when Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark came out in 1876. Snark's humble grey wrapper shouted critical praise for the two Alice books. As the first known jacket to carry advertisements, it was the ancestor of the modern commercial jacket. The English publisher who pioneered designs for fiction jackets was T. Fisher Unwin. As early...