Word: blandings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paris in 1905, only Rodin was turning out anything but the academic nudes and busts that dominated the galleries. Though he lived in the same building with Picasso and Juan Gris, De Creeft himself was at first deaf to the noises of rebellion. Like everyone else, he made his bland clay models and sent them off to be cast at a foundry. Then one night he went to his studio and smashed every model in the place. From that moment on, he became a pioneer in reviving the nearly forgotten art of carving wood and chipping stone...
...Soviet Union's parliament sat tense and expectant at long rows of neat desks. Diplomats, newsmen, and a delegation from Ghana stared down from packed galleries. At the tribune hunched the familiar, round, shiny-pated figure of Nikita Khrushchev. His voice was strident and bitter. Gone was the bland old bluster about "peace and friendship," as the Soviet boss, in we-will-bury-you language, denounced the U.S. for sending a plane over Russia (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) in "an aggressive provocation aimed at wrecking the summit conference...
...Color Bland. In London, fined $14 for failing to put his road fund license on his auto, Alan Humphries blandly explained: "My car is yellow and the license is blue. I did not like the color tones...
...Thurber Carnival. The men, women and dogs that chase one another through Humorist James Thurber's mind come yakking and yipping to the stage in a grand, slightly bland evening...
...Thurber Carnival. The men, women and dogs that chase one another through Humorist James Thurber's mind come yakking and yipping to the stage in a grand, slightly bland evening...