Word: snowbanked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Central Alabama is remarkably beautiful. There are gentle green hills, green with meadows and trees, green from the frequent afternoon rains. There are small cotton fields along the roads, and in September the open cotton bolls make the Black Belt look like a huge snowbank. In the open meadows there are fat black cattle grazing under "Eat More Beef" signs. A traveller on the main highways, looking just at the green hills and the cotton and the cattle, might think he had found the legendary pastoral American paradise...
...inhabits a macabre room furnished like a brothel. New York's Paul Thek shows a roomful of chunks of dead flesh sculpted in wax. Italy's Michelangelo Pistoletto presents sarcophagi and chest-high chamber pots. Sweden's Oyvind Fahlstrom is represented by Firing Squad, a plastic snowbank filled with cryptic symbols including L.B.J. on a cross, bugs and butterflies...
...postponement of the men's downhill ski races and two-man bobsledding, then threatened to wash out the tobogganing altogether. The slippery slopes played havoc with the U.S. ski team: two fractures, a sprained ankle, a dislocated shoulder and a gashed head. A television helicopter crashed into a snowbank, forcing a French skier to veer off course into a fence, and a runaway toboggan smacked headlong into a spectator...
...cafeteria, Pieper and Vernaglia ran down Dunster Street toward Eliot House. They didn't see anyone chasing them, and thought they were safe until a car full of seven people--apparently the same ones they had seen earlier--roared up behind them and hit Pieper, knocking him into a snowbank...
...John dies; so, naturally, she allows her new friend to take her virginity. She is still further upset when he tries to inveigle her into gold smuggling. But with entire predictability, she at last saves him from himself, and the book comes to a stop in a soft pink snowbank. The novel is a skillful, showy little exhibition-but a disappointment from an author who has produced such championship performances as The Roots of Heaven and the autobiographical Promise at Dawn...