Word: brazen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Benin sculpture is more naturalistic than most African totems, as evidenced in 30 of the original bronze plaques lent by the British Museum and currently on view at the University of Pennsylvania's museum. The bronze surfaces are intricately designed for the play of light-wound copper bracelets, brazen armor and engraved rosette backgrounds, which set off the bold, stubby torsos of the figures. Most remarkable was the high level of skill displayed in employing the complex craft of casting with the lost-wax process. Descendants of the great smiths of Benin still revere Igue-igha, who introduced...
Susan B. Anthony: I don't think this discussion is being carried on in the proper spirit. The cause of women's rights is a true and noble one, and should not be confused with the degrading clamor one hears nowadays from certain brazen young women for sexual equality. Let us not be distracted from our work, let us on to full female employment, more girls to medical school...
SHIRLEY BASSEY BELTS THE BEST! (United Artists). The mulatto Tigress from Tiger Bay, the waterfront district of Cardiff, is big in London but never had a blazing hit in the U.S. until she hammered out the brazen curtain raiser to Goldfinger The Goldfinger theme song also opens this album of Broadway ballads, including Peo ple and Once in a Lifetime, all emotionally amplified by the torchy singer...
...Denver suburb of Greenwood Village (pop. 600), a grand jury has indicted two top officials for running what may be the most brazen traffic-fine racket in the U.S. For six years, charged the jury, Greenwood Village used the public highways as a "personal toll road" that raked in $100,000 for the town by means of "a court scheme that was a sham, a mockery, a fraud and simply a system to exact tribute from unsuspecting motorists...
...South Vietnamese defenders it appears more like a death trap. Hemmed in on one side by mountains, on the other by the sea, Bongson focuses a railroad, a river and the north-south coast highway, Route 1, into a single, strategic target. Last week Viet Cong campfires cast a brazen glow on the hills outside of town, while in Bong-son's main fort-rimmed with barbed wire and booby traps-soldiers and civil guards had grown so accustomed to attacks that they did not even stop eating when Communist snipers began firing. To them it appeared only...