Word: breasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Music hath alarums to wild the civil breast...
...Breast beating is common enough in Izvestia. But what was the problem that aggravated the Russians this time? The disappointing showing of Soviet athletes at last month's Olympic Games. The final medal standings at the Mexico City games showed the U.S. with 45 gold, 28 silver and 34 bronze for a total of 107, compared with Russia's 29 gold, 32 silver, 30 bronze and a total of 91. Track and field was an utter debacle for the Russians, who managed to win only three events while the U.S. was winning 15. Every bit as embarrassing...
...remained so to the end. At least one girl sensed young Eugene's mother hangup. Beatrice Ashe, whom O'Neill wanted to marry in his mid-20s, complained: "I felt that he wanted someone to baby him . . . He was always talking about having his head on my breast . . . But I also felt he would have wanted to possess...
...vigorously at the pantheon of art. He painted a mustache and goatee on a Mona Lisa reproduction, put his own portrait on a perfume bottle, submitted a urinal titled Fountain to a 1917 salon, made reviewers dizzy with swiveling patterns driven by electric motors and designed a foam-rubber breast labeled Please Touch. After ten years, Duchamp's energetic nihilism reached its logical conclusion-he retired from painting. But by then his rejection of everything that had gone before had paved the way for surrealism, op, pop and kinetic...
Evans was determined that his speech would be different. All too many keynotes, he found, had been "half diatribe, tearing down the opposition party, and half breast beating, or boasting about accomplishments of the past." He had put uncounted hours into the speech since early June, soliciting ideas from a spate of party leaders, trying out phrases in speeches all over the Northwest...