Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perched high on a hill over Switzerland's Lake Geneva is one of the world's strangest-looking abodes, a concrete egg with a huge bay window that often reminds visitors of a flying saucer, a giant clam or a monstrous white mushroom...
...Duncs who slip in and out of Kennedese; Jill Clayburgh, Roger Robinson and Louis Galterie are verveful witches. Lady McB. (Nancie Phillips) drives the Southern hostess persona to the breaking point, splitting each vowel into triads. Everyone, in short, is deft and galling; only Jake Dengel (The Egg of Head) and Gwyllum Evans (The Earl of Warren) manage to offer anything approaching straight comedy, but then the context is probably too weak to support much more...
...Russians, having helped egg Nasser on by publicly condemning the Israelis, may now be having second thoughts. In a note to Lyndon Johnson, Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin is reported to have urged backstage action by the superpowers to damp down the situation...
...kindergarten. This view is shared by Dr. Mary S. Calderone, executive director of the Sex Information and Education Council of the U.S. and a pioneer of sex education. At the age of three, she thinks, children should begin learning in simple, direct language about the sperm uniting with the egg in the uterus, carried there by the father's penis entering the mother's vagina. She has no patience with talk about the father's "placing" the seed in the mother. "This is a passive description and in fact is not what happens," she complains. "The sexual...
...funk turned out to be merely cheerfully bizarre. Sue Bitney's Family Portrait, a rainbow-hued collection of triangular, circular and arched abstract forms made of painted wood, stuffed canvas and hairy cloth, looked like a creative child's garden of playthings. Kenneth Price's egg-shaped ceramic, glossily glazed in sea blue, sunny yellow and golfing green, beguiled the eye with its nonobjective purity...