Word: barings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Marxist Maginot. At the Potsdamer Platz, which was Berlin's Times Square before the Wall truncated it, visiting sightseers mount wooden stands to gawk at the bare, dead city beyond. "In one quick look," they nod, "you can see what Communism is like." Berliners proudly point out each place where the Wall has been breached: eight celebrated holes in the ground where East-West tunnelers surfaced; the spot on the River Spree where 14 East Berliners turned pirate and steered an excursion boat to freedom. On the Wall's grey blocks of compressed rubble they scrawl elaborate imprecations...
Carried into Battle. In the 14th and 15th centuries, tapestry was the supreme art of France. Rich in color, heroic in theme, and expensive to make, tapestries were the trappings of luxury. Yet they had a practical value. They dressed up the bare stone walls of a castle, and they kept out the cold. Many a shivering demoiselle was grateful for chambres, movable partitions of tapestry which could subdivide a drafty great hall into a cozy nook...
...most responsible. Says Jean Lurgat, 70, chairman of the International Tapestry Center and leader of the new movement in weaving: ''The modern world needs these large ornamental tapestries, these colorful hangings, to veil, and at the same time to enrich, the sometimes exaggerated starkness of bare walls in contemporary architecture.'' Lurgat is currently working on a series of tapestries called Le Chant du Monde, mostly representing such contemporary horrors as La Grande Menace (fallout), Le Grand Charmer (worldwide charnel house) and La Fin de Tout (final destruction). Other sections of Lurgat's monumental looming have...
...Force stopped buying the F-102 and F106 delta-winged fighters, made at the city's huge Convair plant. Convair was also hurt badly when its 880 and 990 jet airliners had poor sales records. Last year the city's aircraft industry took in a bare $215 million on planes and missiles...
Freed after five years, Prophet Moses returns to Cockpit Centre with a new revelation: God is black. Moses leads his followers up into the hills to build the Utopian settlement of Hebron with their bare hands. But down in Cockpit Centre, the mockers who always ridiculed Moses are now rapturously following a Marxist messiah who preaches revolution and easily defeats Moses in a marketplace debate. The prophet determines to make amends for his philandering and vainglory as God's son should: through crucifixion...