Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tomb, bordered by boxwood, magnolia and cherry trees, commands a sweeping view of Washington. As before, the eternal flame, set in the center of a round, light brown stone five feet in diameter, can be seen at night from the capital below. Rough-hewn granite stones, originally cut from a quarry near Kennedy's Cape Cod summer home more than 150 years ago and recently collected from farmyard walls and abandoned foundations in that area, pave the site. On a low semicircular wall are inscribed seven quotations, all from the inaugural address. The black marble slab marking the President...
Tactful Deletion. Not that Jackie is trying to protect her children from the past. "I want to help John go back and find his father," she told the newsmen. "It can be done. There was that stone his father placed on a mound during his visit to Argentina a long time ago, and then when I took the children there later, John put a stone on top of his father's. He'd like to go back to Argentina and see his stone, and his father's stone-and that will be part of knowing his father...
...carrion. Lowbrow-beaten by his father, and pushed off a cliff by a dribbling sibling, young Tumak (John Richardson) rebels and goes into the caveman business for himself. Eventually, he stumbles across the Shell people, a group in a more advanced state of civilization, as evidenced by their stone-headed spears and the pneumatic uplift of Raquel Welch's deerskin halter...
...Sundown. A generation ago, it had seemed possible that the original pioneer settler, a Scot named Ferris, might have made an outpost of civilization in this ill-favored wilderness. He had cleared the bush, trained the natives in animal husbandry and domestic service, imported the piano, the chandelier, the stone lions at the stoep, wine glasses and even books. In the hands of Ferris' son, a potbellied boor named Archie, things fall apart-both literally and figuratively. The piano sinks through the termite-ridden floor, the chandelier is unlit, the glasses are broken, the cattle die of foot...
...Francine Stone presents a fine cameo as the chambermaid, as does Raye Bush as the wife of the hotel keeper. Miss Stone's encounter with the Spaniard's wife (Amanda Vaill) is one of the most skillfully done of the numerous incidents connecting life in the insurance broker's apartment and the people at the Pretty Pussy. When the women unconsciously exchange what they are carrying -- Lucienne's parasol for Eugenie's pail -- we are reminded of just how much fraud we are seeing...