Word: souveniring
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...check-in counters and overcrowding in airport restaurants. Much the overcrowding is due to people who come to gawk rather than fly. Parents park children at airports while they go someplace else to shop. Some airports, to keep kids in hand, have opened amusement arcades, kiddy rides and souvenir shops, which turn many a city's aerial gateway into a carnival. Says one airport executive: "Where you don't hate something to entertain the kids they write all over the walls. You do it as a defensive measure...
...women, are among the most cherished talismans of the 1930s. The eight sculptures employ ideas Magritte previously used in his paintings, gaining solidity without loss of magic. La Folie des Grandeurs derives from a 1947 fantasy showing three women's torsos, each set implausibly one inside the other. Souvenir de Voyage shows a coffin reclining gracefully on an Empire couch, in a grisly parody of Madame Recamier...
...testified in extraordinarily grim detail at his trial, he did it with a souvenir bayonet that he kept hidden under his mattress. Laying it on a nearby chair one night, he called in his mother to trim his toenails. For no particular reason, he said, as she knelt to clip "I picked up the bayonet by the blade, and I swung at her. I tried to stop myself when the handle hit her on the back of her head. She fell forward on her hands and knees and screamed for Dad. As I started to run from the room...
...stake in the area, they have increased their Mediterranean fleet to some 50 ships, which thus equals in number, if not in firepower, the U.S. Sixth Fleet. Such ports as Algeria's Mers-el-Kebir, Egypt's Alexandria and Syria's Latakia are filled with souvenir-shopping Soviet sailors these days. So far, only the oil-rich kingdoms of Libya, Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf states have resisted Russia's advances...
...television scene flickered into millions of American homes in all its grim and ghastly detail. There, before CBS news cameras set up at a 1st Infantry Division base 50 miles north of Saigon, were three dead Viet Cong whose ears had been cut off by souvenir-hunting G.I.s. "You must understand," said CBS Newsman Don Webster, reporting from the scene, "the emotional state of some of these men, and their anger and sorrow at the loss of their buddies. A few days from now, these soldiers will probably be as aghast as anyone at what they've done...