Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Buddhist pagoda, the Communists set up a fully equipped command post for the attack. Shortly after midnight, the raiders assembled in units ranging from small suicide squads to well-armed company-size teams, and were led to their targets by local Communist guides. Some were dressed in neat, white button-down shirts and khakis, others in parts of ARVN uniforms or ragtag sports clothes. Dark clouds hung over the city, and only an occasional Jeep moved quickly through the eerie silence. Warned to expect something through captured enemy documents, military police had donned flak jackets and guard duty had been...
Luminal artists commonly require the viewer to push a button or step on a lever in order to activate their art, but Manhattan's Hans Haacke, 31 , has dreamed up an ingenious way of getting the viewer to turn on the art with out really trying. On display last week in Manhattan's Howard Wise Gallery was a small white room, lined on four walls with 28 electric bulbs at shoulder level. When the viewer walked into the room, the four lights centering on him lit up in unison. When he moved, other bulbs lit up, chasing...
...back-room Man Friday to three Presidents, Clark Clifford's demeanor has always been as discreet and distinctive as the double-breasted suits he continued to wear all through the two-button era. Last week, during his first center-stage performance as a Cabinet officer-designate, a 2½-hour appearance before the Senate Armed Services Committee, he left the strong impression that Robert S. McNamara's succes sor as Secretary of Defense will be flexible in tactics but firm in strategy...
...large, lumbering man whose amiable gracelessness extends both to his music and his conducting, Khachaturian, 64, is not exactly soured on the success of the Sabre Dance. "But it's like one button on my shirt," he says, "and I have many buttons." Curiously, the buttons do tend to resemble one another in all but size. The 48-minute Symphony, inspired by wartime patriotism, swoops from brassy fanfare to keening funeral march with a sure theatrical sense that never quite obscures its melodic poverty; the Concerto-Rhapsody covers much the same ground in about half the time...
...Grand Charles"-a suggested lapel button for American tourists to France: WHERE is ROBESPIERRE NOW THAT WE NEED...