Word: whaled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cost Plus rented 4,000 sq. ft. of warehouse space next to Fisherman's Wharf to sell off its large inventory of rattan furniture. Shoppers were so charmed that the "sale" is still going on. Today, Cost Plus stocks 12,500 items (from Portuguese glass to South Pacific whale meat) from 47 countries, draws 25,000 customers weekly-and has spread out into six remodeled buildings, including a former glue factory, ship chandlery and marble works...
Lilly undermines his accomplishments, and his book, with a stubborn allegiance to an unsubstantiated theory: that mammals with brains larger than man's are more intelligent than man. Without offering any scientific documentation, he suggests that the sperm whale, whose brain is six times as big as man's, could hear a symphony once, store it in his computerlike mind and play it back to himself note by note. Says Lilly wistfully: "I would like to exchange ideas with a sperm whale." The last fellow who dared to say that was Captain Ahab...
Another of Manhattan's new plastics men is Neal Small, 30, who believes that old-fashioned visible furniture is too "weighty, massive and oppressive-like having a dead whale in the living room." Small's answer is cubistic hard plastic chairs and tables, each transparent unit molded as one piece. His small rectangular tables have a surface only 13 in. by 16 in., but four of the units can be clustered to make a square coffee table or lined up in a row to make a long sideboard...
...Lawrence Jones, are unhappy not only about the present rash of damage claims but also about "the potential losses from similar events in the future." Insurance companies will certainly try to cut their losses-especially for any future disturbances. "Those people in Detroit are going to pay a whale of a price," says James L. Bentley, president of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. Jones does not hesitate to predict that looting and arson in the ghettos will result in higher insurance premiums and outright policy cancellations. To guard against the latter, both the Michigan and New Jersey state insurance...
STRATFORD, Conn.--What a whale of a tale is the story of Antigone! It was momentous and relevant 2500 years ago; it is momentous and relevant today; and, if civilization should happen to survive 2500 years more, it will doubtless be momentous and relevant still...