Word: zu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three-story white villa in Zu rich's discreet residential district of Hongg is surrounded by electronic devices to detect intruders. As visitors walk from the iron gate to the front door through terraced gardens, they may notice that the burly man water ing the petunias has a revolver stuck in his jeans. They may also see a cheetah and hear the growls, if not feel the breath, of two lion-sized Great Danes...
...Thailand that gives the illusion of being five separate circular necklaces heaped one atop the other, go perfectly with the elegantly simple lines of contemporary high-fashion clothing. So do the intricately crafted silver and turquoise belts and vertebrae-like necklaces hammered out by Indian metalworkers of the Navajo, Zuñi and Hopi tribes. The similarity between the old and new is at times so striking-as with Edival Ramosa's curlicue aluminum and silver necklace-that some of the New Jewelry, says Lyon, "would have been more acceptable in Etruscan times...
...sported tattoos on his arms and chest. To most Danes he was a discreet, suitable constitutional monarch and an ideal family man and father. His popularity was enhanced by Swedish-born Queen Ingrid and Daughters Margrethe, 31, who succeeds him, Benedikte, 27, married to German Prince Richard zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, and Anne-Marie, 25, the exiled Queen of Greece...
...billion for the year. The debate intensified last week as Administration officials testified before the congressional Joint Economic Committee and encountered skepticism even from some Republican members. Representative Barber Conable of New York said that the forecast reminded him of a remark by an anthropologist friend: "The Zuñis realized that the rain dance didn't bring the rain, but it made the tribe feel better...
...longer poems are better, however. "Die Stunde zu Endor," "The Hour at Endor," is a long, rambling plaintive piece, filled with biblical allusions and curiously moving. Her series of "Choruses" sums up the spirit of longing and sorrow which is the backbone of her whole poetic work, and most of the poems display the marvelous strength of her use of the language...