Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arthur Frommer's penny-pinching guidebook Europe on $5 a Day will escape most of the taxes, as will tourists who visit kinfolk in the old country. Though details have not yet been worked out completely, the tax for average daily expenditures above $10 may come to a flat 20%, or it may go as high as 40% for everything over...
...practically no one seems to want is the presidency of the European Economic Community. After the French last year forced Germany's indomitable Walter Hallstein, president for nine years, to resign over policy differences with them, two of the leading candidates for the top job turned it down flat, and Charles de Gaulle vetoed a third. Who, after all, wanted to tangle with the French? Finally, almost by default, the job went to a diminutive and quiet-spoken Belgian, Jean Rey, the Common Market's Commissioner for Foreign Affairs. Since Rey's chief qualification at the time...
...successful mistress, how to make a man of her husband, how to avoid sexual entanglements with Daddy, how to make the most of "brief encounters." There is no sexual problem, apparently, that is not conquerable. "Shy girls can be the sexiest," announces the magazine; so can flat-chested girls: "They substitute their lack of inches with an aura of superfemininity. There is something very feline and terrifically exciting about the way a small-bosomed girl moves...
...flat Eaglets were unable to register as they were outshot 13-3 by the fired-up Yardlings...
Paradox is at the core of Vasarely's throbbing vistas of geometry; it creates the tension that gives them vibrancy and verve. Although the 50 paintings on view appear to be little more than decorative flat arrangements of squares, lozenges and ovals, in fact the shapes are knitted together in complex honeycombs to create rippling illusions of perspective and depth. Glowing with savage chartreuses, electric blues, racing-silk greens and murky purple shadows, his panels, priced at up to $14,500, have made Vasarely the darling of multimillionaire collectors, including the Rothschilds and the Aga Khan...