Word: fairing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whether Graham's experience was typical or his conclusions fair, he is not alone in his bitterness. "There was something wrong with the whole thing," he argues. "It has screwed me up so bad and screwed the whole country up." He now wants the U.S. to pull out "as soon as we can." Why? To win the war, he estimates, the U.S. would have to be willing to lose more than 300 of its soldiers a week for years. "I don't think it's worth killing American boys on the pretense of helping those crummy bastards...
While Osborne attempts to be scrupulously fair on the subject of homosexuality, he also exhibits a certain squeamish distaste for the subject. The evening's coup de théâtre is the drag ball that opens Act II. Lavishly costumed for a kind of inverts' Mardi Gras, the imperial army's top officers cavort in the home of the Baron von Epp. Dennis King plays the role in tiara and gown, and flutters an imperious fan with the regal disdain of a queen of players. At no other point does the play rise to this level...
...tomato sauce and seven other tinned seafoods-but no bread or crackers to go with them. The Soviet sales luncheon has become increasingly familiar in Southeast Asia, where the Russians are pressing an economic offensive. This week they will wind up their most ambitious effort, a three-week trade fair in Kuala Lumpur. Elsewhere, the Russians have recently formed a joint shipping company with businessmen in Singapore, made trade overtures to the Philippines, welcomed a Thai trade delegation in Moscow and expanded Aeroflot plane service in many parts of Asia...
...work now in the works is a lox-pink ice bag, 18 ft. in diameter, for the U.S. Pavilion at the World's Fair at Osaka next year. A motor inside will cause the ice bag to tilt, inflate, undulate and deflate on a continuous cycle. As an object, it is funny, anthropomorphic and intellectual all at once. It qualifies as kinetic or soft or Pop sculpture...
...gems. The highways glitter with the carapaces of new automobiles, while the finned monsters of the '50s have all crawled off to ghetto side streets to die. Even the city's showplaces are touched with the grotesque. Atop its status hotel-a clash of world's fair modern and imitation European traditional-a tired combo plays 1940s two-steps for well-oiled customers, who are served by aging waitresses in miniskirts...