Word: crest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Matching the right artist and subject gets careful consideration, particularly if the face to be painted is already instantly known or if we choose a symbolic cover instead of a likeness. In May of 1968, when Robert Kennedy was near the crest of his primary election campaign, we selected Pop Artist Roy Lichtenstein. He depicted Kennedy as an all-American hero in a comic book motif. When Raquel Welch was the cover subject in 1969, we might have chosen a glamour specialist. Instead, the assignment went to Frank Gallo, a sculptor with a satiric streak. He rendered Raquel lifesize...
Muddy Waters is the king of dirty blues, down-home blues, funky blues or straight blues-most properly known as Delta or country blues. Along with such other black masters of this unique American art form as B.B. King and Howlin' Wolf, Muddy is riding the crest of a surprisingly long-lived blues revival. Of them all, he remains the purest, the most loyal to where he has been and what it has cost him. Muddy's brand of Delta blues is supposed to follow the traditional twelve-bar structure, but as often as not uses eleven...
...near the port of Piraeus, where they read their fortunes in the grounds at the bottom of their cups. In recent years, the grounds have spelled out nothing but good news. Since the Six-Day War of June 1967 closed the Suez Canal, shipowners everywhere have been riding the crest of a seemingly endless wave of profits. Last winter freight rates rose so high that many owners of bulk carriers and tankers became millionaires almost overnight...
What is the attraction? Jobs are plentiful, as usual, and the country is riding the crest of a mining boom in the Northwest. Australia still throbs with zestful materialism. It is an egalitarian land with a relaxed, undemanding lifestyle. The big cities are all on the coasts, and three-quarters of the people live within an hour's drive of a beach. Sydney, built around three harbors, sometimes seems almost water borne. "All my students seem seduced by sport and sun," says a professor at the university in Perth, echoing the tribute of Poet Dorothea Mackellar to Australia...
...that the builders had only to brick two end walls, cover the roof and put in small windows at either end-the integrity of the double-thickness of adobe walls that they had built, there are now trees growing within the earthwalls and the top branches have broken the crest of the hill adobe is one of the few moral ways man can build on the land, the adobe comes from the land where the home is to be, it raised from the earth and still a part of it, the color is the land beneath the juniper and pinon...