Word: brooms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Robert Crichton, 41, a World War II combat veteran, is very likely the funniest war novel since Mister Roberts. The Troy of his hilarious Iliad is a wine-producing village in southern Italy, a town so poor in everything, including fertilizer, that its inhabitants stalk oxen with a broom and a pan. The Hector of the tale is the village mayor, a paisano whose native cunning has been reinforced by the study of Machiavelli. The Agamemnon of the story is a German captain assigned to rob the village of its only precious possession: 1,320,000 bottles of vermouth...
...says the artist, "but she makes a form." Other goodies on view include a stuffed ocelot, a stuffed owl and a stuffed boar (Serra's wife is an amateur taxidermist), bidets crammed with conch shells, beaten-up boxing gloves, and broom bristles. Of his crass menagerie, Serra says: "People didn't know whether Robert Rauschenberg's goat with a tire around it was art. Now they know. If an artist goes on making goats, though, he's hung up." Serra tries to stay loose, and designs his works to last. Says he proudly, "I take great...
...member of the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley. Chicago demonstration leaders used walkie-talkies to coordinate student action, staked out the building floors variously for sleeping, socializing and folk singing, turned the registrar's office into their command post, sent runners out to bring food, and commandeered "broom squads" to pick up litter...
...tormentors became increasingly sadistic. John Baniszewski Jr., now 13, and two neighbor boys, diabetic Richard Dean ("Ricky") Hobbs and Coy Hubbard, both 15, joined the laceration game. Sylvia was burned with matches and cigarettes, whipped with a heavy leather belt, hit on the head with a paddle and broom. A 14-year-old girl who visited the house recalled: "It was 'Sylvia, do this' and 'Sylvia, do that' all the time, and when she didn't do it, they would beat...
...military brass, who are consolidating their hold on the country. Whether his move will be successful is in doubt. Many officers still suspect Subandrio of sympathy with-if not complicity in-the coup attempt, and the army shows no willingness to settle for anything less than a clean-broom housecleaning of all Reds and Red sympathizers.* Stepping up its campaign' to discredit the Communists, the army last week made public the confession of the country's sixth-ranking Communist, a labor leader named Njono who was arrested two weeks ago. According to his confession, the Communists not only...