Word: camel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Designer Cecil Beaton) as "an authoritative crane." Though she is a generous flatterer of the physical attributes of others, even her own admiring friends must strain to return a compliment ("Well," said one, straining, "she has a strange and marvelous spine"). Her walk has been described as a camel's gait, her nose as something stolen off a cigar-store Indian. Yet thousands of women cut their hair because of her, cream their skins, shorten their sleeves, and belt their coats, all at the iron whim of a woman whose face is as rarely photographed and widely unknown...
...thing that pleases me most," he says, "is hunting for bustards with our falcons. It's tremendous to see the falcon fighting the bustard and killing it. Each falcon has its own special owner and refuses to hunt for anyone else." The sheik is also a connoisseur of camel's milk-his only drink-and can tell by the milk's taste what the camel has been eating and where it was in the desert. For the best milk, he explains, "we feed camels on sea mangrove and dried fish. This gives the milk a slightly fishy...
...What I've done is to put the animal instead of the human in the landscape. The monkey seems, like Ned Kelly, to be a creature who has come out of the bush." In Explorer, Rocky Landscape, the protagonist looks as if he were attached, centaurlike, to his camel, as if the two were "united for survival." A century ago, explorers and traders introduced camels to Australia, and a few wild ones can still be seen, bringing to the continent "an archaic. Biblical feeling." It is the man's nakedness that fills the painting with a feeling...
...proverbs, ranging from the cautionary (see cover) to the racially skeptical ("Better the tyranny of the Turks than the justice of the Arabs"). There are proverbs aplenty to fit the dream of unity. To the ambitious Nasser, other Arab leaders might point out the one that says. "The camel driver has his plans, and the camel has his." But proverbs are eclipsed by power, and last week nothing was more certain than that whatever unity scheme emerges in the Middle East, must, first of all, be satisfactory to Gamal Abdel Nasser. For of all the revolutions involved, only...
...necessarily. Anyone can like the flavor. The style of dress is consistently tasteful. Girls often wear high heels and stockings. Coats with fur collars, small pins and wrist-watches, Camel's hair anythings, gloves, jackets with print linings, and pretty colored sweater sets are common. This style approves highly of boys with vests, pipes, and woolen scarves around their neck; and likes to dress up on dates...