Word: artful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...likes to think of himself as a member of the U25 (under 25) generation that he paints for. Anyone, Max says, can be U25 if he is "open-minded, youth-oriented." Prince Charles, at 20, is unquestionably U-25, and an ideal subject for Max's "cosmic art." The colors and shapes in his portrait, says Max, and the planet Saturn in the lower right-hand corner, "are all symbols of today, of the Aquarian age, the golden age that we are just now entering." Charles, says the artist, "is an Aquarian prince whether he knows...
...role. Elizabeth is perforce the straight man in the act, who underdoes everything with a flawlessness that creates its own suspense. At the other extreme, and refreshingly so, is her husband, Prince Philip, who looks remarkably like Stan Musial and is a self-confessed expert in the art of "don-topedalogy," as he calls it: opening his mouth and putting his foot in it. The Queen Mother is everybody's baby sitter. Lord Snowdon and Princess Margaret are the scandalous bohemians; they actually stay out late at night, have been known to drink, and it is widely rumored that...
...world, some 600 have resided for centuries in the royal collection of Britain's monarchs. How they came to be there is not certain. Most of them seem to have been brought to England by Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, known as "the father of English art collectors," who found them in Spain some time after 1637. The royal family acquired them some time before 1690. But apparently neither King William III nor Queen Mary was much impressed by their quality. A hundred years later, an official at Windsor Castle discovered them tucked away "in the bottom...
...Angeles and picketed in favor of the "heavenly jobless." A truck driver in Boston took his St. Christopher statue off the dashboard, had his first accident in 35 years, and ruefully put it back. An international fraternity of Christopherphiles with headquarters in France reported that enrollments were climbing. Columnist Art Buchwald, a Jew, speculated that good old St. Chris topher would go right on protecting travelers, calendar or no, because he's "that kind...
Jackie: Do you believe in masturbation? Interviewer: But the point of Roth to me was the language. Jackie: Yes. Shlong. That's a new word to me. You're so uptight. Why are you uptight? I'm relaxed. Life is fun. Great fun is high art. What do you read? Interviewer: Well, I just read I Am Mary Dunne, by Brian Moore. Jackie: I am what? Mary Hun? Never heard of it. Do you have children? Interviewer: I have three. Jackie: I know your type. You have French records on while you're feeding the baby...