Word: freshness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Building Bridges. Fresh from Germany, where he had unveiled a memorial plaque to President Kennedy on the fagade of the West Berlin City Hall...
...sign at a Nishi-Ginza intersection in downtown Tokyo blinks a tentative 80, then flashes to 82. Red light. Screech! North-south traffic stops. The number blinks: 81, 79, 78. Ready, eastwest? Engines whine. Clutches out. Getaway! Flash goes the sign: 79, 81, 82-84!-See THE WORLD, The Fresh Start...
...Scandinavians celebrate summer with feasting and fireworks, music festivals and folk dancing until dawn. At lunch hour, heliotropic beauties stand on every sidewalk with closed eyes and hiked skirts, "mooning at the sun," as the Swedes say. Restaurant tables are laden with summer delicacies: crayfish, trout in sour cream, fresh eels, wild strawberries. In the milky gloaming that passes for night, Copenhagen cabarets work double shifts, and the nightlong sounds of revelry prompt a tourist official's tip: "Have fun in Denmark. Sleep in the next country...
...countries represented, the Biennale promised, as usual, to be an embarrassment of riches, and proved, as it often has, to be a mass preview of oblivion. Endless arid abstractions vied with the fossil art of mere representation. Into this esthetic drab land came some young Americans whose vision was fresh even if their art was not fine. The Biennale judges succumbed, and for the third time in the 69-year history of the show awarded the prize to an American, Robert Rauschenberg, 38, "the old master...
...movie that you cannot put down. Like the book, it scores its cheap success as a swift, irresistibly vulgar compilation of all the racy stories anyone has ever heard about wicked old Hollywood of the '20s and '30s. The titillation is masked as the biography of a fresh young tycoon whose interests -airlines, moviemaking, starlets-bear certain obvious though wildly embellished parallels to the career of Howard Hughes...