Word: blimps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Around 1912, the real-life Gaudier was commissioned to do a portrait bust of a Major Smythies, who - considering the time and place and the modernity of Gaudier's work - can hardly have been a fool. Russell turns him into a florid cross between Kaiser Bill and Colonel Blimp, querulously posing in a drawing room on a white horse. Do such absurdities matter? Not if Russell's aim was slapstick parody. Yet, to judge from his publicity, Russell believes that his erratic mediation between Vasari and Groucho Marx tells some truth about the creative processes of his hero...
...inflatable buildings in the California desert last summer. A sudden desert wind arose, reaching a velocity of 70 m.p.h. It whipped an 80-ft. by 30-ft. bubble (with ten men aboard) 25 ft. into the air. For a terrifying moment, the Chrysalis employees thought they had invented the blimp...
Bray is a 54-year-old former administrator for one of Her Majesty's former African colonies. No Blimp bucking the winds of change, he was cashiered for showing too much sympathy for the local independence movement. After independence, Bray accepts an invitation to return as an educational consultant to Miss Gordimer's nameless, composite, new African nation. His professional commitment to the excruciating process of Third World nation building is complicated because the country's opposing political factions -one moderate, the other revolutionary -are led by two of his former proteges...
...uncanonized saint. His spectacular, freshly painted portraits gave Moscow a colorful veneer for the occasion. Everywhere, banners and flags snapped in the spring breezes. At nightfall, colored lights twinkled in the capital's trees, fireworks illuminated its skies, and spotlights played on a huge portrait suspended from a blimp. Coinciding with the civilian celebrations was a dazzling worldwide show of strength by the Soviet navy and air force. After a year of almost ceaseless drumbeating, the 100th anniversary of Lenin's birth had arrived at last, and Vladimir Ilyich was being given...