Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thomas Hart Benton, 70, broke off from mural painting in the nearby library of his old friend, Harry Truman, to lower a heavy easel on Russian art. Said he: "They have no use whatever for all this individualism, abstract impressionism, and what Harry-President Truman-calls 'ham-and-egg art . . .' The only good art they ever had was the art the church took out of Byzantine Greece into Russia-the making of those icons. Their realistic art is the worst kind of art borrowed out of the worst period of European art-the salons of the middle...
...little in Author Sagan's latest (and fourth) novel worth a compliment or a damn, although readers with an ironic turn of mind may cherish the 23-year-old author's reference to "that incomparable love that comes with age." The story, hardly more than the unhatched egg of a novel, concerns Paule-the only character whom the author has troubled to make credible-a pretty divorcee who, in her black moods, has begun to ask a hard question of her mirror: If spirits sag. can flesh be far behind? Standing on the brink...
When the newspapers spread Bally's story, Farmer Kolkman could not understand the fuss. "Hendrik never asked for a raise," he said. "He had his Sunday suit, and every morning we gave him an egg. He didn't want any more." As for Bally himself, now that he had glasses of his own, he had taken a look at newspapers again, and could not find much of interest in them. "It's like the old days," he said. "They still quarrel...
...left a very realistic technique," he murmurs, waving his enameled cane, "and on le right le technique of les pointillists." Hidden among the dots and stripes on the right side is a head-down Crucifixion and its reflection through the banners of the Spanish provinces. A Paradisial egg of light at the top of the canvas contains, from the bottom up, Ferdinand and Isabella receiving Columbus, Saint Salvador, and the Virgin with the body of Christ. The tall banner on the left bears an exact and brilliant portrait of Dali's wife Gala...
...deemed strictly a rich man's dish, and Beirut housewives now buy 40,000 a week. Another result: 32 chicken rotisserie stores have opened in Beirut since 1958, and 64 more await licenses. Greenleaf also sells chicks to local farmers who want to learn how to raise quality egg-layers or well-fattened roosters. To offset future losses from such potential competitors, Greenleaf is selling them feed...