Word: cool
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...diplomatic assignments were Garcia-Godoy's way of getting the leaders of both military factions out of the country and giving the hottest tempers on the island time to cool. The rebel departure alone seemed to help. Last week nightly shootings, bombings and other terrorism tapered off, and a leftist-called general strike fizzled even before it began...
Earliest Truffles. His customers came to include all those with money, family, achievement or plain corporate brass who make up society in New York. With them Soule was always cool, correct and attentive. Recalls the New York Times's Charlotte Curtis: "He would arrange his people around the room as if he were a woman preparing for a ball. He would put Mrs. William Paley on one banquette like a huge bouquet of flowers, Mrs. John Pell on another side, and perhaps Elizabeth Arden in still a third corner...
...electromagnetic coils and magnets. The results are a vertigo of discombobulated images, an early show of what kinetic art might become. "There are 4,000,000 dots per second on one TV screen," he says. "Just think of the variety of images you can get. It's so cool. It's like going to the moon...
...which Harlem is not changing fast enough to suit Hudgins and many other Negroes involves the lending policies of the white banks. Negroes complain that these banks are quick enough to make short-term, high-interest loans on such repossessable goods as TVs and automobiles, but are notably cool when it comes to real-estate and small-business loans that would help Harlem more. "The other institutions," says Hudgins, "are not carrying their share of the burden. They do not relate themselves to the com munity." Freedom National makes consumer loans in competition with the five big banks, but real...
...brains behind The Boys undoubtedly believe that the movie reflects changing tastes, but they seem to confuse updating with downgrading. In front of a camera that sits paralyzed with embarrassment most of the time, Louis Armstrong, Liberace, Herman's Hermits and other specialty acts struggle gamely to stay cool. It is Armstrong's ironic duty to appear at the fadeout, rumbling in song, ". . . who could ask for anything more...