Word: comforts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What was Dayan up to? The second change in plans was for the luxury-loving minister's comfort and convenience. The first one, however, involved an important and secret diplomatic mission. TIME has learned that the reason for Dayan's mysterious disappearance and his unscheduled return to Israel was a rendezvous with Morocco's Hassan II at the King's summer palace in Tangier. Dayan flew to Tangier after disguising himself by taking off his famous black eyepatch and donning dark glasses and a diplomat's Homburg hat. The Moroccan King has met before with...
...last resolution of two visions of nature that were woven into his birthright as a painter: the European heritage of symbols. One was the artificial paradise garden, whose chief example (for Matisse) was the Alhambra in Granada-nature tamed, formalized and patterned to the highest degree of artifice and comfort. A work like the Large Decoration with Masks, 1953, with its repeated gridwork of leaves and cloves, alludes directly to Arabic tilework. But the other prototype was the vision of the natural paradise, exemplified since the 18th century by Tahiti. Matisse had gone to Tahiti in 1930, finding it "both...
...dream las become a reality. Almost two of three American families own their own homes, a far higher proportion than in any other industrial nation. Though foreign visitors are appalled by the squalor of U.S. big-city slums, they are invariably awed by the spaciousness, conveniences and comfort of the houses in which most middle-income Americans live. Three or four bedrooms, two or three bathrooms, a modern kitchen?that is commonplace in the U.S., but fairly unusual even by the standards of affluent Western Europe, and still more so Japan, and virtually nonexistent (except for a favored...
Outside the great conference hall in Nairobi, 16 fountains sent up sparkling plumes of water, and black Mercedes limousines glistened in the bright East African sun. Inside, some 1,500 delegates from 110 nations sat in air-conditioned comfort. The splendid setting of the meeting could hardly have clashed more jarringly with its purpose. At the U.N.'s invitation, the representatives had gathered in the Kenyan capital last week to discuss and devise ways of containing what an increasing number of experts regard as a major environmental danger: the creeping, seemingly relentless spread of the earth's deserts...
Unfortunately, Mr. Carter's saying that "many things in life are not fair" will do little to comfort an anguished woman who knows she cannot have a child and yet can't afford an abortion...