Word: barings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leather vests and striped stockings. They lick ice cream cones but seldom smile. They are exotic exaggerations, vinyl Venuses in modern Threepenny Opera costumes, flagrant in their red fright wigs and monster cupid lips. His portrait of Art Patron Peggy Guggenheim has her decked out in butterfly sunglasses with bare breasts to boot...
Neither prude nor Puritan, Hogarth sought to lay bare the foibles of his England. Yet he was no revolutionary; he wore the scarlet coat of a gentleman, and respected the Crown. He married the daughter of the man who painted murals in St. Paul's, eventually succeeded him as Serjeant-Painter to Kings George II and III. He began life as an apprentice silversmith, wound up with a country house and six servants...
...some facetious currency about the time of Diamond Jim Brady and Lillian Russell. Criminal Hierarchy. Written in prison in 1943 and first published in France in 1951, the book creates an intense picture of Genet's closed world. France outside the walls practically ceases to exist; only bare intimations of it seep through. A war is going on somewhere. The prisoners are making camouflage nets for the Germans, rather than mailbags. All sorts of people-"politicals" -are arriving in prison who have no business there. The narrator is indignant that the criminal hierarchy is put out of balance...
...improvements built into the current 1300 and 1500 models, such as wide-track wheels and automatic choke. But the new car resurrects the pony 41-h.p. engine which VW dropped in 1965. It will hit 70 m.p.h., as against 78 m.p.h. for the 53-h.p. 1500, will cost a bare $1,121, compared with...
...West Germany's deepening business downturn, few areas of the economy have suffered more than the auto industry. Production, which increased 12% in 1965, rose a bare 3% last year (to 3,000,000), and automakers entered 1967 with a worrisome 360,000 unsold cars. So severe is the slump that mighty Volkswagen, fourth largest automaker in the world (after the U.S. Big Three), is learning to think small again. Off Volkswagen's assembly lines at Wolfsburg last week rolled the first of its new Model 1200 sedans, which VW executives call the Wirtschaftskrise...