Word: windowed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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King's office itself is part of the non-literary side of the collection. A bust of Longfellow by a black woman sculptor graces her bookcase, and a stained glass window by Sarah Lyman Whitman, the first woman stained glass designer, is behindKing's desk...
...manners of the urban singles scene can be as perplexing as the mating dances of the graylag goose. Psychotherapist Al Manaster observed a singles bar called Butch Maguire's in Chicago and detected four distinct sets of rules at work. "In the front section near the window, it is the garden of narcissism," he explains. "People go there just to be seen, not to make out. At the bar there is heavy hitting. You stand there to get picked up. The pinball section is heavy macho, with horseplay between the sexes. In the back room is backgammon, where the more...
...Middelburg, a small town outside Pretoria, two small boys run up to wash the windows of the car, hoping to get a few cents for their efforts. They wipe the window furiously with a cloth only slightly more ragged than their clothes; this five cents means a lot to them. Times are bad now for black South Africans. Unemployment has reached an all-time high, though no one has exact figures; and there is no minimum wage for most of the jobs blacks can do. 80 per cent of black South Africans fall below the poverty datum line, the absolute...
...point is a daily "Starbird," a full-page bare-breasted crumpet on page 7 (the Sun usually carries its cuties on page 3, the Mirror on page 5 or 7). The Star's top Stories: MODEL'S MYSTERY PLUNGE (she fell all of 12 ft. from the window of her lover's flat and broke her ankles), I WAS HIDING DRINK IN THE GROCERIES (a soccer player's drinking problem), BEAUTY AND THE PRIEST (a vicar who paints undraped females, one of whom is shown modeling...
...always double his energies as long as he is managing someone else's affairs. Finally, Goetz's Podkoliosin, the soul of skittishness, i brought to bay, but in a bachelor's desperate bid for freedom, he jumps perilously out of the second-story window of the marriage site...