Word: eels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...included few women (two at most). He abhorred water, put goldfish in the water pitchers to discourage would-be teetotalers. Once at table, his guests braced themselves for surprises. Much of Lautrec's cuisine was inspired variations on classic dishes, but his real penchant was for the exotic: eel liver, fried octopus, thrush en casserole...
...found Matisse "cold, aloof and difficult to deal with," but bought more than 35 of his works. Chagall delighted her; she found him "an electric eel of a man with bright eyes and an unruly mop of hair." Helena purchased six gouaches by him. In 1942 she outfitted the cardroom of her New York apartment with three Dali murals depicting Morning, Noon and Night. Flushed with success, Dali next wanted to do a fountain spouting from a piano suspended from the ceiling. "That," he said, "is the essence of surrealism." For once Madame said...
Unfamiliar Glow. All that intense professional activity-involving everything from rockets to careful studies with powerful telescopes-was touched off by a couple of amateur Japanese stargazers working with homemade equipment. For Kaoru Ikeya, 21, who lives in a tin-roof shanty near the eel farms on Lake Hamana, 140 miles southwest of Tokyo, this was his third comet discovery. Since his first (TIME, Jan. 25, 1963), Ikeya has advanced from a $28-a-month lathe operator to a $44-a-month ivory-key polisher in the same piano factory, but has no greater ambition than to help support...
...uses his cheetah, Mike, for hunting and exercise. Exotic animals can be habit-forming. Jeri Hines, a Los Angeles divorcee with three children, bought a boa constrictor a couple of years ago. Since then, she has acquired an alligator, an aquatic toad, a green iguana and a tire eel, and has had to move to a new district because none of her neighbors would let their children into her house...
...near the roiling Columbia River. An Air Force plane dropped 1,000 Ibs. of food to the 300 stranded passengers, who were finally evacuated safely. In California, gale winds whipped bridges off their foundations and stranded hundreds of motorists on the Red wood Highway. Almost every town along the Eel River, in the northwestern corner of the state, was under water. City officials in Rio Dell put out orders to knock down telephone and power poles to convert the main street into a landing pad for rescue helicopters. In the Indian reservation towns of Hoopa and Willow Creek, the whole...