Word: tailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...comment, it is most likely to be in the form of a juxtaposition of incongruous images--a derelict lying on the pavement under a huge advertisement for salad dressing or a close up of the large and powerful hind quarters of a horse cleaved by a gaily braided tail...
PALM SUNDAY. Like so many undergraduates before homecoming, parisinoners have put together floats and costumes for a parade around the church parking lot and right into the sanctuary. At the tail end comes a flower-festooned forklift truck; Father Quinlan, standing atop the truck's raised platform and waving a green branch, symbolizes Christ entering the Holy City...
...with his wife Susan in a roomy house in Santa Monica, Calif., with studios in the basement where he can practice and she can paint and sculpt. Affable enough but always a little shy, he has one eye slightly askew and wears his long hair tied back in a tail, which gives him the look of a congenial, landlocked buccaneer. His sense of humor is spiked with sardonic throwaway lines (he calls dilettante English Rockers who love American blues "tea bags"). Cooder likes to stay close to home, but when he must go to L.A., he dresses his otherwise modest...
...plight is best embodied by the traditional symbol for alchemy--a snake biting its own tail. As he writhes, he emerges as an attractive character. Wincing at his awkwardness and glorying in his rare verbal victories become comfortable...
...Rosovsky letter was critical of the Washington legislators, noting that no committee hearings had been called on the bill and implying that Cambridge academics would need "amendments and the issuance of workable guidelines" to make head or tail...