Word: aloof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...found Matisse "cold, aloof and difficult to deal with," but bought more than 35 of his works. Chagall delighted her; she found him "an electric eel of a man with bright eyes and an unruly mop of hair." Helena purchased six gouaches by him. In 1942 she outfitted the cardroom of her New York apartment with three Dali murals depicting Morning, Noon and Night. Flushed with success, Dali next wanted to do a fountain spouting from a piano suspended from the ceiling. "That," he said, "is the essence of surrealism." For once Madame said...
...marries a failure who eventually beats her and nearly drives her insane--but she can't let The Group know she's made an unsuccessful marriage. Pokey (Mary-Robin Redd) is fat, funny, and fertile (two sets of twins, my dear), and finally, Lakey (Candace Bergen) is the aloof aesthete who is a lesbian...
...many city universities, says New York University's President James Hester, are either service schools that accept all comers or aloof and selective schools that seem to wish they were in small college towns. In his four years as head man, hard-driving Hester, 41, has moved N.Y.U. toward his own vi sion of "an unbeatable campus for young intellectuals who bring their hearts to the cities" and revel in ur ban culture...
...started moving, so right now in Manhattan nightspots it's the Boogaloo, in which you swivel from side to side, shuffling feet, rotating shoulders and pelvis. Says Terry Noel, discaire (record selector) at the popular Arthur: 'The Boogaloo is a casual motion, a pose. It's aloof. It says, 'Don't bother...
After the war, Ceausescu rose rapidly toward the top, though he remained aloof from the Pauker group in the process. By 1955, at the precocious age of 37, he was a full-fledged Politburo member, two years later took charge of party organization and cadres-which made him second only to Dej in power and influence. The stocky figure with the curly brown hair and perpetually wrinkled forehead popped up everywhere as Dej's delegate: Moscow in 1959 and 1961, Italy in 1962, Peking in 1964. On his only known Western vacation, Ceausescu checked into Paris' Prince...