Word: balis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Miguel Covarrubias, 53, energetic, popular Mexican caricaturist of the '20s and '30s (for Vanity Fair, The New Yorker), painter, anthropologist and art historian (Island of Bali, The Eagle, the Jaguar and the Serpent); of septicemia; in Mexico City...
...house. It is quite a house: suites will rent for as much as $65 a night; each of the 450 rooms has air conditioning, TV, and imported marble baths. Outside the hotel is a 50-by-90-ft., palm-shaded swimming pool; inside, the hotel has a Bali Room restaurant and nightclub, where everything from walls to waiters is tricked out in Balinese decor; a Nordic Room studded with 25,000 pearl-like shells, a Versailles Room for private banquets, where a fountain can be made to spray champagne instead of water...
...last week a 28-year-old Shakta named Odia Patel, clad only in a loincloth, walked into a magistrate's office in Bali, a district of Rajasthan in Northwest-Central India. In his hand he held a severed human nose and a bloodstained knife. Said he: "This is my wife's nose. I cut it off because she was unfaithful to me. And this is the knife I used...
Despite wrenching translations and ironfisted Spanish censorship, the show retained a surprising amount of its pace and charm. Spain's top scenic designer, Sigfredo Burman, speckled the mythical isle of Bali Ha'i with miniature lights that blink by night, put ripples in the sea, installed clouds that moved swimmingly across pink-and-azure sky. and devised ocean waters to lap seductively at the sandy shores...
...largest political party in the predominantly (90%) Moslem republic, would make Indonesia a theocratic state if it came to power. Others, less charitable, find an explanation for Soekarno's behavior in his ambition to become the Nehru of Indonesia. During a recent visit to the island of Bali with Soekarno, Nehru's sister, Madame Pandit, said to him: "You know, I think you'd be very successful as a dictator." Soekarno just laughed...