Word: aridity
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INTERNATIONAL BEAUTY SPECTACULAR (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Girls from 46 countries arid 44 states will compete for the title of Miss International Beauty and the $10,000 that goes with it, telecast live from Long Beach, Calif...
...real show was almost as predictable. With 3,000 paintings, 500 artists and 34 countries represented, the Biennale promised, as usual, to be an embarrassment of riches, and proved, as it often has, to be a mass preview of oblivion. Endless arid abstractions vied with the fossil art of mere representation. Into this esthetic drab land came some young Americans whose vision was fresh even if their art was not fine. The Biennale judges succumbed, and for the third time in the 69-year history of the show awarded the prize to an American, Robert Rauschenberg, 38, "the old master...
...That arid square, that fragment nipped off from hot Africa, soldered so crudely to inventive Europe...
Thus Poet W. H. Auden once darkly described Spain, but today the "arid square" of more than 30 million people is growing ever closer to the rest of Europe. Franco long ago took economic power away from the old Falangists who helped him win the civil war. Now El Caudillo, who fancies himself an economist and contributes occasional articles to Madrid newspapers under the pen name "Hispanicus," is steadily giving more authority to a corps of knowledgeable and enthusiastic technicians. The young economists have been raising both living standards and future hopes...
...past 19 months, Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser has lavished ill-spared funds and fighting men on the backward, arid republic of Yemen, where a revolutionary leader backed by Nasser is struggling against the stubborn remnants of the ousted royal regime. Nasser has committed 36,000 Egyptian troops - one-third of his entire army - but the royalists still control the countryside, penning the revolutionaries in a few garrisons. Last week, paying his first visit to Yemen since the 1962 coup, Nasser was plainly anxious to decide whether to cut his losses or to continue the costly desert...