Word: unicorn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...follow Bloomingdale's essential formula: first, know your customer, his age, affluence, customs, habits, tastes. Then set out to woo him with distinctive merchandise, flashy displays and a general aura of showmanship, all calculated to make shopping an adventure?in fact, fun. Bloomingdale's puts it on the unicorn-bedecked Christmas shopping bags it is handing out to customers this year, "Come, let us believe in magic again...
...comes, eventually, to a large, isolated house. There is food cooking and, over in the corner, a pig seems to be talking to her. This is not entirely surprising. Moments before, the girl had seen a unicorn in the garden...
...slightly oppressive tone of dream data being recorded and examined. Freudian symbolism proliferates. The war between the sexes suggests the girl's adolescent turmoil over her own sexual identity. One notes-one can hardly avoid-the preponderance of traditional Freudian sexual metaphors: snakes, clocks, the horn of the unicorn. Add to this the curdled maternalism of the old invalid and the nearly unreachable sustenance of that outsize glass of milk, and Black Moon seems like a long case study...
...ADVENTURES OF TINTIN: THE SECRET OF THE UNICORN; RED RACKHAM'S TREASURE; THE CRAB WITH THE GOLDEN CLAWS; KING OTTOKAR'S SCEPTRE. All written and illustrated by Hergé. All 62 pages. Atlantic-Little, Brown. Paperback $1.95 each. No one should be put off by Tintin himself, a boy in knickers with a muffin face and a tuft of hair rising to a curled peak like a Hokusai wave. Or by Captain Haddock, his bearded rum-sodden sidekick. Or by the small white dog, known as Milou in the original French versions of these stories, but for some...
...Haddock, Snowy and two idiot detectives in black bowlers into the desert to chase opium smugglers, into central Europe to try to keep King Ottokar from losing the throne of Syldavia, back into history to recall the voyages of Haddock's pirate ancestor Red Rackham on the ship Unicorn, and, finally, down to the bottom of the Caribbean in a sharklike submarine after Rackham's treasure. Hergé, the nom de plume of a Belgian genius named Georges Remi, who has had Gallic readers in thrall for more than 40 years, fills his small frames with marvelous detail...