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...THOMPSON-Jackson, 32 East 69th. Feverishly sensual imagery of unsubtle sexual allegory spiced by a confusion of horses' rumps, human hinders, bat-winged vampires and amoebic shapes that droop and contort like tortured Shmoos. The hot, flat fuchsias, reds and greens of this young modern primitive tangle in a fluid phantasmagoria of form, motion and space. Through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Art in New York: Jan. 3, 1964 | 1/3/1964 | See Source »

...moment that the President of the U.S. was gunned down, Ruby, a fleshy, balding bachelor of 52, was sitting at a desk in the display advertising department of the Dallas Morning News, working on an advertisement designed to promote the outstanding virtues of his droop-bosomed Carousel Club strippers. Someone came in with the news of the assassination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Man Who Killed Oswald | 12/6/1963 | See Source »

...legislators was instructed to inhale deeply, then to exhale as hard as he could through a tube attached to the bellows of a spirometer. The motion of the bellows made an electronic dot on the screen of a nearby oscilloscope. A persistent lung disorder usually shows up as a droop in the loop made by the dot as it moves downward across the screen during exhalation. Besides the blow-out test, each Congressman had a chest X ray and filled out a short questionnaire: "Are you ever troubled by shortness of breath? Do you have more than two colds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chest Diseases: Wind on the Hill | 8/2/1963 | See Source »

That was impolite, to say the least. Britain's Jaguar was represented by four of its new droop-snoot E-type cars; Germany's Porsche entered five cars-and then there were the U.S. challengers. After years of listening to those cracks about "Detroit Iron," both Chevrolet and Ford were on hand-and obviously yearning for a U.S. victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auto Racing: Another for the Monster | 4/5/1963 | See Source »

Artful Euivocqations are even worse; lynx-eyed sly little rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to Exam #40. Then our lynx-eyelids droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.'s are vicious or ludicrous as such: but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. "The 20th Century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud" (V.G.); "but whether this is a good thing or a bad is difficult to say" (A.E.). Now, one might be droll enough...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Grader Replies | 1/25/1963 | See Source »

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