Word: defectiveness
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Interesting Defect. Pablo's art requires the touch of a miniaturist, the steadiness of a demolition expert. He has both, plus an assorted palette of six watercolor shades and seven sable brushes of various sizes and shapes-shaving-brush thick for blush powder, pencil-thin for under-eyeliner. Eyes are made up as much as possible: double, even triple rows of false eyelashes ("Doesn't everybody own at least three pairs?"), and the rest a subtle blending of watercolor tones: black eyeliner, then white, light brown, dark brown (in the crease of the eyelid), light brown again, ending...
...defectors will be asked about their personal backgrounds and the circumstances that led them both to join and to defect from the Vietcong. Vietnamese students, rather than the Americans, are being used for the interviewing to avoid "contaminating" the information received, Knight said...
...been back to Russia since 1963. His parents have not seen their oldest grandchild, Vladimir Jr., 41, in three years; they have never seen their infant granddaughter Nadya. Still, alone of all the Soviet artists who prefer the Western side of the Iron Curtain, Ashkenazy refuses to defect, clings carefully to his Russian citizenship. He hardly notices that each year he edges a little farther away. In the old days, he forgot to put articles in his English ("I had best steak of my life in Cleveland airport"); now he speaks it fluently. He has recently gone...
This could be a trend. Maybe imperceptibly, Napoleon and his sidekick Illya Kuriyakin will dump U.N.C.L.E., join with Thrush, and come up with a new show, I Defect. Hard to believe...
...captive citizens of Eastern Europe don't want to defect! Can they travel without leaving families and property behind? Where in Eastern Europe may they fill out application blanks for immigrant visas? Doesn't TIME know that last year West European governments v/ere unable to arrange for employment of unemployed Polish workmen because no one would guarantee that the Poles would return to Poland? Doesn't the fact that millions of people may not buy one-way tickets arouse indignation...