Word: glasse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...psychological as well as physiological benefits, giving the exerciser a gratifying sense of doing something virtuous, sensible and good about his condition. What all of the experts are wholeheartedly against is nonexercise. This leaves little comfort for the many who hold that the only good exercise is lifting a glass at the end of a tense day. For them, a word must be said about the tendency to overdo: after the last glass of Pommard with the blue cheese, it is not wise to rise too rapidly from the chair. That might be too strenuous...
...dispatch reported that Willy Brandt had just told a rally of his Social Democratic Party that De Gaulle, far from being a friend, was a "power-thirsty old man" obsessed by "rigid, un-European ideas." Stunned, Couve said to an aide: "Power-thirsty! Perhaps Herr Brandt had one glass too many." When De Gaulle heard the news, he was furious. Next morning he summoned Couve to the Elysée Palace, and Couve in turn summoned German Ambassador Manfred Klaiber to demand an explanation. The ambassador was in agony. He apologized profusely for the dispatch, which had been filed...
Rhythm 21 consisted of squares, hypnotically regrouping themselves into evolving sets of Mondrians. Later films employed surrealistic glass eyes and bowler hats skittering through the air. An outspoken opponent of Nazism, Richter was forced to flee Germany and emigrated to the U.S., where he produced Dreams That Money Can Buy, a surrealist fantasy starring his fellow émigrés Duchamp...
...school, unless you want to be something helpful, like a doctor, or a dentist, or a veterinarian, or an osteopath, or an optometrist, or a chiropodist, or a minister, or a research scientist. Or, you can be something else helpful, like a farmer, or an apprentice riveter, or a glass-blower, or the Vice President of the United States. The Selective Service makes the rules: how sick you can be, how crazy, how tall, how immoral, how ignorant, how conscientious...
Wind-Whipped Icicle. Among the recognized leaders is Los Angeles' Larry Bell, 28, who began evolving his coolly opalescent glass boxes five years ago after an early career in painting evoked "a gnawing frustration with two-dimensional form." To portray light and color in a Platonically pure and idealized fashion, he began painting glass cubes with abstract designs, found that the paler his colors became, the more easily spectators were able to ignore his boxes as objects, enjoy them instead for what they did to light. The technology behind Bell's boxes is highly sophisticated, but he dismisses...