Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From Here to Infinity. To sculpture buffs, most of the U.S. and European artists' names are familiar, but Curator Fry has made a determined effort to provide rarely seen examples of their work. Still more newsworthy is the display of the seven examples of Japanese sculpture, which show that Nippon's advanced technology and freedom from European tradition have produced some sculptors with slates as clean as any in the U.S. The Port, an internally lit blue and transparent plastic piece by Katsuhiro Yamaguchi, and the giant slab of plastic Swiss cheese called Blue Dots by Noriyasu Fukushima...
Women's fashions have never been leggier. And so, with skirts still riding well above their knees and winter's icy blasts already on their minds, women are searching for new ways to beat the now familiar problem of polar kneecap. The surest bet seems to be boots, and all across the country women are besieging stores for this year's rage: high-rise stretch vinyl or synthetic-leather boots that pull on and off like gloves, and reach all the way up the thigh...
General Matt Ridgway, that once familiar figure with the fur cap and the hand grenades dangling from his field jacket, was the man who took over from Douglas MacArthur after President Truman fired the aging hero. (As a younger generation of hawks and doves now scarcely remember, MacArthur had publicly criticized the President for not allowing him to strike back at Red China across the Yalu.) In a brisk personal and military memoir, Ridgway, who is now 72 and retired, reviews the U.S.'s first major confrontation with Communism in Asia...
Blank . . . my love's eyes familiar as a scar...
Lonborg sits in the front seat, not looking, not speaking--the fallen hero still stunned. "You're great, Lonborg," the drunk screams, and the crowd presses forward for a glimpse of the familiar unshaven face. The gates open once again, and the gold Cadillac convertible squeals away into the night...