Word: totemism
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...clever steps backward and occasionally falling by accident into the water. You can try on a Panamanian straw hat, test a Nicaraguan wooden spear, and talk to a stranger in California while you stare into his eyes on television-telephone. Alaskan Chilkat Indians will tell you how to make totem poles: start by floating the log in a lake until it steadies, then split off the upper third, since that is where the most knots...
Honeymoon Hotel. Comedian Robert Morse looks like Arthur Godfrey Jr. and makes more faces than a rubber totem pole. He scored big on Broadway in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, and then somebody apparently told him how to succeed in pictures without really trying: never put the part before the Morse. Up to a point the formula works. But what the heck. Being a success in this picture is like being head flea on a dead...
Real Gone. Soon it was clear that the gangs were dying. Friday night rumbles were no longer a test of status; what counted was how well each gang's rock group performed on Saturday night. A gang's rock group became its totem, and all the members began dressing in the costume of their quartet. "The music," writes Fletcher, "was gradually becoming 'us,'" and it did not go unnoticed that the girls "seemed to be real gone-over not only the sound but also those who made...
...visited Philadelphia and Cincinnati, laid on trips to Florida and Illinois in his avid nonpursuit of the nomination. Candidate Harold Stassen, who looks and sounds more like a non-candidate than the noncandidates themselves, admitted to Harvard's Young Republicans that he was "at the bottom of the totem pole" in New Hampshire. Even that was an understatement. And in Detroit, Michigan's Governor George Romney breakfasted with Pennsylvania's Scranton in the Sheraton-Cadillac Hotel, and each tried to persuade the other to jump into the race. Scranton said he would be simply "delighted" if Romney...
...took up brushes again, using his drip technique less and less frequently, to produce his last spurt of genius. In Portrait and a Dream, he showed the dichotomy between the monochrome meandering of his somnolent mind and the colorful mask of his own waking self. In Easter and the Totem, he paired a budding lily with a brown bullet totem that juts into the canvas from the left. He painted The Deep, a blinding flutter of butterfly wings which gape apart to reveal a fissure roiling like some hellish furnace. It was a fiery glimmer into...