Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with what it calls a "jacket": eight heavy-walled steel cylinders, 34 inches in diameter and up to 100 feet long. It sets them upright in two widely spaced rows, and braces them with a criss-crossing network of strong piping welded to their sides. It loads the massive affair (weighing up to 250 tons) onto a big barge, and tows it out to the drilling site. Then a powerful crane, mounted on the barge, lifts the jacket and stands it up on the sea bottom, the tops of the cylinders extending about 30 feet above the surface...
...nearly totally blind, can make any song sparkle with his dextrous, imaginative ideas. Spontaneously, he ripples off complex chords, melodic figures and moods that should make the most devoted Liberace fan cry with shame. Some of the 34 titles: The Man I Love, Body and Sold, Yesterdays, My Last Affair, This Can't Be Love, and I'm Coming, Virginia...
...pavilion, which the Museum of Modern Art bought this year from the Grand Central Art Galleries, offered the works of only two painters-Social Realist Ben Shahn and Abstract-Expressionist Willem De Kooning. A two-man affair by deliberate museum decision, it made for a forceful though far from representative showing. Shahn, whose art had its roots in proletarian fury and has now become fashionable, topped the list of lesser prizewinners with an $800 award. Many exhibitors, notably those of the Iron Curtain countries, seemed stifled by their messages. Shahn, on the contrary, is lost without one. Shahn...
There is, however, quite enough technical magic in the famous episodes-the target incident that gives the first hint of Queeg's queerness, the dye-marker affair that sicklies him o'er with a yellow stain of panic. These scenes, for all their episodic quality, cling together like the well-machined surfaces they...
...Spanish Civil War refuses to lie still in its political grave. It keeps haunting memories, arguments, books and loyalty files. For countless Americans now over 35, it was the first great meeting with history, the first passionate political love affair-or hate binge. Scores of keen-eyed witnesses, including Britain's late George Orwell in Homage to Catalonia (TIME, May 19, 1952), have shown that the war was not a simple melodrama of Franco vice v. Loyalist virtue, but a far more complex tragedy in which the Loyalist side itself fought a kind of civil war within a civil...