Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hunted is a canvas galloping with the frenzy of a chase: black lines crack through foggy depths, crimson waves stain the atmosphere, and a palpable blue river creates cover for an eye that lurks in shadows. Ten new paintings as well as gouaches. Through...
...instructions from Washington, U.S. Ambassador William Attwood broke off the talks. To save the lives of the hostages, the 600 men of Belgium's crack Regiment Para-Commando, led by a stocky, balding Africa hand, Colonel Charles Laurent, 51, would have to live up to their motto: Nee lactantia Nee Metu (Neither Boasting nor Fearing). They...
...like a pregnant woman, just beginning to be recognized"). She makes frequent trips to town, adores an evening at the opera or dinner at a favorite restaurant like Maxim's ("We love it," she says, "although the one in Paris is really a bit better"). A crack shot, capable equestrienne and "dear friend of Coco Chanel's," Mrs. Butler has a passion for Paris clothes, wears long hostess gowns or pants suits for quiet evenings at home. In fact, evening pants, designed and priced high by Pucci, Chanel and imitators, are almost intimidatingly chic in salons from...
...Would Die. There was always the chance that the rebels were bluffing. But a battalion of 600 crack Belgian paratroopers was loaded aboard U.S. C-130 turboprop transports at Belgium's Diest airbase, flown to a little-used U.S. military base on Ascension Island, a British outpost in the South Atlantic only six air hours from Stanleyville. If necessary for humanitarian reasons, the Belgian government later announced, the paratroopers would be dropped on Stanleyville...
...Tenn., and Du Pont is also building a factory in Belgium to produce Corfam for the European market. Barbed-wire fences and 24-hour guards at Old Hickory testify to Du Pont's unwillingness to share its hard-won secrets with a dozen competitors that are trying to crack the synthetic-leather market. Not even the shoemakers have been allowed inside the production area, and a sign at Old Hickory announces: "Our competitor is a nice fellow-smart too-so let him figure his own way." One reason for Du Pont's anxiety: computers that it rented from...