Word: delights
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SPAIN has gone to immense trouble and expense to impress, delight and profit. With great paintings, hot-eyed flamenco dancers, two exceptional restaurants (see below) and a cunning convolution of courtyards and corridors, Spain's entry is Número...
...French pursuit of paint as paint-tachisme, art brut, or art informel-Spaniards such as Tàpies brought robust energy. They not only painted the wall; they made walls. They slashed and splattered their canvases, then stitched and bandaged them up. Their palettes were a tinker's delight, making Jackson Pollock's drip technique seem like polite pottering. And out of that impulse grew the whole movement (see color pages). Some of the comers...
...last week all that had changed. By order of the Supreme Soviet of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, the shameful names had been changed to ones more rich in hope and Socialist Realism. Among the changes already being incorporated in all Russian maps and tourist guides: Delight, Berry Patch and Pinewoods; Friendship, Cherry Trees and Radiant Glow...
...open to Communist (particularly Red Chinese) appeals. Through the lowering heat of coastal Ecuador and the wintry mist of Peru, he worked until exhaustion, made worse by his bad health, left him unable to talk. He heartened priests, preached long sermons, blessed edifices of various kinds, and everywhere took delight in children. At one town he poured milk into the mugs of several hundred assembled urchins. In a penniless orphanage he committed himself to vast purchases of ice cream for kids, and, reminded that he must always raise money for the missionary society and much more besides, reduced some little...
...less food a year than their fathers, but are spending $232 a year more for it. This is not so much because prices have risen but because consumers nowadays show a weight-conscious preference for green vegetables over starchy potatoes and a gour met's delight in better meats and frozen specialties. For every $3.50 they spend on home-cooked meals, moreover, they pay out another $1 to dine...