Word: delights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Zooming Jets. Last week eight British jet fighters paused at Gibraltar en route to Norway. To the Gibraltarians' delight, the jets, in a show of force, zoomed round and round the Rock, made low passes over the water off the Spanish coast. Britain may well be prepared to offer two concessions to Spain: a crackdown on the smuggling annoyance, and a guarantee that no matter how much self-government the Rock obtains, it will never become a base for any hostility toward Spain...
...works could be bought for $10 apiece (Peggy Guggenheim paid $50 for hers). Today Hundertwasser has become Austria's hottest painter, selling his works to the Rothschilds, French Premier Pompidou and André Malraux at prices from $2,000 to $17,000. Currently, to Hundertwasser's delight, Vienna's Museum of the 20th Century is showing 120 of his works...
Later another speaker pointed out, to the delight of the crowd, that "this morning's New York Times headline was what may be one of the greatest parodies in history: '160 U.S. and Vietnamese Planes Attack Bases in North; Washington Seeks to Limit...
...costs to $30,000 by using cast concrete, sometimes in a giant sandbox. A huge slab relief dominates the playground entrance. Two 8-ft.-tall diamond-shaped fountains gurgle water through faceted gutters, and an 80-ft.-long stucco mural wall borders the childrens' plaza. The principal delight is a circus of 18 cast-stone horsies, mixed with marble dust to sparkle in three colors. They are indestructible mounts for the most tantrumy tot. A final touch is a hulking, 7-ft.-high abstract human figure, a sort of guardian nanny to children romping there...
ZORBA THE GREEK. The hell, the horror and the sheer animal delight of Nikos Kazantzakis' novel are served up larger than life by Director Michael Cacoyannis, with Anthony Quinn magnificently cast as the goatish old Greek who butts his way through a series of disasters...