Word: bas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...current show, at Manhattan's Durlacher Bros. Gallery, Tooker's eight latest paintings show that he is now using less spacious vistas, concentrating on shallow scenes that he calls "bas-reliefs." The themes that concern him are loneliness, racialism, death and youth. Lunch shows people packed closely at a Chock Full O'Nuts-style counter, munching in their respective dream worlds. Landscape with Figures shows haggard young people crouched in a huge honeycomb, and is "my way of protesting the situation kids are in now. I feel sorry for them with the draft, the pressures to conform...
...thirds of the French banking industry dozes along under government ownership, and most private bankers are too timid to fight. The lone tiger is a bald dynamo of 66, Jean Reyre, president and director general of the Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas. With at least a small stake in almost every big French industry, Reyre's "Paribas" spreads its investments across the world. They range from manganese ore in Gabon and gold in South Africa to factories in India and Russia...
Wills, who was handicapped by a leg injury over the last half of the season, will probably be used at third bas by the Pirates to replace the traded Bailey...
Hard evidence of that fact emerged on two fronts last week. Columbia Pictures, immersed in a taut fight with dissident stockholders, won a pledge from the Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas, which had recently acquired a 20% interest in the company, that it would stand by the present management. That beat off the challenge of the takeover-minded dissidents, at least for the time being. At the same time, small but glowing Seven Arts Production Ltd., headed by ex-Tire Executive Eliot Hyman, announced that it would purchase 1,600,000 shares of Warner Bros., giving...
...Volgograd hydroelectric station he met his match. The station officials had prepared a 300-lb. sturgeon stuffed with caviar. De Gaulle eyed it skeptically and said: "There always has to be a victim." Only once did he lose patience with his hosts. In Kiev, being shown a bas-relief of "all the peoples of the world," De Gaulle snapped: "Good. Since everyone is there, we can go away...