Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eisenhower has been true to the anti-sitting tradition, never allowed more than an hour or two for portraitists-until last month. When TIME commissioned famed Realist Andrew Wyeth to paint the President, both artist and subject hesitated momentarily. Wyeth, a deliberate and profoundly emotional artist, was naturally a bit overawed by the assignment. The President, for his part, was relaxing at Gettysburg, gathering his forces for his momentous and precedent-shattering visit to Europe. But TIME and mutual admiration brought the two together to create an important addition to the picture gallery of American history...
Saccharine Sale. The fact that the critics find Success too saccharine bothers Douglas not a bit. He has sold it, and the big (6 ft. 2 in., 191 Ibs.), bass-voiced producer who acts as his own narrator is more than satisfied. "In this business," says he, "you gotta go, and you gotta go with what you've got." What Jack Douglas has got is a $50,000 salary, an additional $50,000 that he earns as a performer, and the proud knowledge that if "I really needed it, I could pay myself $250,000 a year without missing...
...loving attention to detail, but conservative styling that has not basically changed since the 1930s. But even the grand old lady of the auto world (Stuttgart's proud Daimler-Benz, Mercedes' maker, claims to be the world's oldest auto producer) occasionally indulges in a bit of sprucing up. Last week Daimler-Benz showed off its new Mercedes models...
...becomes half-blind with trachoma. By the gentle glowing phosphorescence of decay, Stacton's characters search for some meaning to life. Such a unicorn hunt cannot succeed, of course, but it has its impressive moments -Stacton's people talk very well. They may, in fact, talk a bit too well; after a time the author's fondness for epigrams becomes almost as irritating as Aldous Huxley's old weakness for brandishing his scientific erudition. "The one thing wisdom does foolishly," Stacton chisels in the enduring wood pulp, "is to overlook the power of folly." And "though...
...Enemy Ground. In Rio de Janeiro, Humberto Meneses Cotrim bit a snake that bit him, survived while the snake died...