Word: whatnots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Victorian parlor was complete without its whatnot crammed with porcelain curios and bric-a-brac. Potters of that day found an endless market for glossy, sentimental figures of puppies, kittens, grazing sheep and cows (sometimes used as milk pitchers). Today the ceramic gimcrack is coming back, this time destined as much for museums as for the coffee table, and in a radically different form. The current crop of gewgaws is more likely to be an eight-foot alligator, a toothbrush, or a bathroom scale with a few human toes still left in place...
...driveway stand two castoff Cadillacs from Cassius, "His" and "Hers." Odessa still tries to keep a semblance of cool around the house, while Old Cassius tromps around thinking up ideas for commercial schemes-food endorsements, perhaps a nationwide chain of "Clay's Kitchens" or "Clay's Whatnot Shops...
...cult, the Assassins. The two most recent books, Novia Express and The Ticket That Exploded, come daringly close to utter babble, according to reports. In these volumes Hasan's dictation is augmented with a "fold-in" technique: pages of the first draft (or of a newspaper, Shakespeare, or whatnot) are taken at random, folded in half lengthwise, and stuck together. This juxtaposition of fragments, says Burroughs, produces a continuous interweaving of flashbacks and flashforwards...
...final picayune complaints: (1) What is the rationale in listing the big cast on the printed program specifically not in order of speaking? It is particularly difficult in Shakespeare's history plays to identify many of the sirs, lords, soldiers and whatnot, who often are not referred to by name in the script. A change in policy would be of service to the audience and to the players -- not to mention critics...
...labels such moves as the Polaris, or Western Europe thrusts as "extreme provocations," for which is required Type II Deterrence. Type I is deterrence of direct attacks upon the continental U. S.; Type II is deterrence of limited provocations like Laos, or more subtle areas of diplomacy, propaganda, and whatnot...