Word: bladed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dada, the yeasty nihilistic movement of post-World War I days, seemed tired and tattered, its once-youthful stars well past middle age. Even the exhibits had lost most of their punch-Man Ray's ticking metronome with a staring eye impaled on the blade, entitled Object to Destroy; Marcel Duchamp's bearded and mustachioed version of the Mona Lisa; a mirror into which visitors peered until they saw the title, Portrait of an Imbecile...
Died. Constantine Brancusi, 81, famed, bearded Rumanian sculptor whose polished bronze propeller-blade-like Bird in Space stirred a noisy controversy in 1926 when U.S. Customs officials tried to tax him for importing huge hunks of bronze "under the pretext of art"; of a heart attack; in Paris...
...steady); 3) swords in a V (she's interested in going steady); 4) crossed swords (poison, she's got a steady); and 5) single vertical sword (get lost, she's married). The boys wear single swords in one of two positions-blade straight down if he is already married, up if he's on the prowl...
...General Motors' rubber-tired, 518-h.p. Goliath scraper, which takes 24 cu. yds. of aggregate with one bite of its 14-ft. bulldozer blade. Each of its two diesels connects with a single track, so that one track can continue forward while the other reverses, spinning the giant around...
Barry Bingham, editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal; Alfred Friendly, managing editor of the Washington Post and Times Herald; and John M. Harrison, editorial writer on the Toledo Blade, will serve on the Selecting Committee for Nieman Fellowships for 1957-58, the university announced. William M. Pinkerton, director of the Harvard News Office and Louis M. Lyons, curator of the Nieman Fellowships, are the other members of the committee...