Word: face
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prudently transferred to the neutral ground of Mexico City. When Salvador won, the Hondurans were outraged. In an outburst of machismo, they sent an air force plane streaking across the skies of El Salvador. The Hondurans may well have looked on the flight as only a bit of face-saving muscle flexing, but the Salvadorans regarded it as a grave provocation. They decided to launch a preventive...
...place was deserted, the maid would deliver an "all-clear" signal and Garbo would appear in a white terry-cloth wrap and plunge in for a brief, ever-watchful dip. Security broke only long enough for some quick shots by a long-lens camera that recorded the famous face, still beautiful despite advancing...
Perhaps the freshest play is Ptakovina, by Milan Kundera, who is one of those fighting to keep the writers' union committed to the liberalization program of 1968. Kundera's novel of Czech Stalinism, The Joke, has the directness of a fist in the face; it has been made into a film shown at Cannes this year. Ptakovina is a made-up word, literally "Birdtrick," meaning stupidity...
...young experimental company, Ptakovina keeps audiences constantly off balance with laughter. But the most resounding applause comes without a laugh when the headmaster tells his own fiancee that he hasn't the heart to be a hypocrite any longer; that "I've lost my second face." "Better find it again," she warns. "It'll serve to mask your rage...
What About Farouk? In his column last week in fact, Heikal contended that "those who called for an immediate military solution through war realize that after two years this challenge is larger than, they had imagined." As for a peaceful solution, its "exponents find themselves face to face with the inevitability of the need to struggle." His conclusion (undoubtedly cleared with Nasser) is a study in hard-line ambiguity: "Force is the only way, and force is a long and hard course of many stages and various methods...