Word: souvenirs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cherished stars of the past like Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable. The ceiling of her bedroom is painted sky blue, with puffy white summer clouds-her brother Richard's artwork. In the back there is a small swimming pool, beside which stand a 6-ft. metal robot, a souvenir from one of her TV specials, and a stone statue of a naked maiden-wearing a wig and sunglasses. Out front is a 1955 Dodge Royal Lancer. One of the ugliest cars ever to come out of Detroit, it is nonetheless a treasure to her: "I like cars that look...
...party for Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, she pored over The Story of the Gettysburg Address and Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. Her dinner partner, Senator Edmund Muskie, gently interrupted her reading to coax her to eat her spinach timbale. Later, with a flourish, Amy gave Muskie a souvenir-her place card, on which she had inscribed EAT YOUR SPINACH. Perhaps Amy will start a trend. Asked Washington Post Columnist Judith Martin: "If the book was better than the table conversation, which is certainly possible on state occasions, why can't everyone bring...
...giving tonic-an ideal way, as Novorossisk Plant Manager Andrei Oganov puts it, "to quench the thirst, invigorate the body and raise the tone." The chief problem the Russians have had with it is a low rate of bottle returns: despite a 120 deposit included in the 540 price, souvenir-minded Russians have been hanging on to two of every five bottles sold...
...moon). The Super Bowl has made other contributions to the culture too, footnotes not to be lost. In 1967, The Game was responsible for the release of 4,000 pigeons in flight over the crowd, an exercise that produced history's most massive precision drill: the simultaneous holding of souvenir programs over 63,036 heads. Other wonders: a 30-foot statue of a Green Bay Packer snorting smoke from three-foot-wide flared nostrils; a hot-air balloon that, too cold to climb out of the stadium, drifted into the stands and was torn apart by fans. The N.F.L. went...
...Plains into a family duchy, the biggest issue in the contest was the future of the tiny town (pop. 683). Celebrity has already taken its toll: up to 2,000 tourists pour in daily, overtaxing the toilets, parking illegally in hopes of getting a ticket to save as a souvenir, tearing pages out of the Baptist church's hymnals on Sundays. Claiming that Blanton's air-controller work in Albany, 40 miles away, prevented him from executing his mayoral duties fully, Billy said he ran "because I didn't want to see Plains go right straight...