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Except for the glint of halos, the figures in this youthful Madonna, despite their hierarchic gestures, are close kin to flesh and blood. Subtly but simply, the artist has divided his composition in two: at right, the blue haze dissolves into atmospheric depth; while at left, the leafy, lemon-bearing latticework seems to push the Madonna's arm forward. The artist flips her cloak inside out to balance the push and pull between foreground and background, playing its green lining against distant hills, its blue surface against the trellis...
Love Potion No. 9. The American presence is felt in ways other than the military. In Korat's swinging nightspots (ranging from the Pizza Palace to the Playboy Bar), crew-cut G.I.s dance with Thai girls in skintight trousers and bouffant hairdos that glint with Helene Curtis spray (a top PX item despite the fact that no American military dependents are allowed in Thailand). Ubiquitous transistors thrum with American pop tunes (current favorite: Love Potion No. 9), and such examples of American cuisine as cheeseburgers and chicken-in-the-basket now grace the menus in Udorn. The U.S. Army...
...Glint in His Eye. Soon Schlesinger was taking an active hand in Democratic politics. A staunch anti-Communist who early took the far left to task for "following the policies of the Soviet
Stevenson bandwagon in 1952. During that campaign, says a friend, "he got a glint in his eye that never left." But two straight crushing defeats nearly dispirited him. "Stevenson came along too soon," he lamented in 1957. "Americans, after a generation's buffeting by depression and war, had to have a breathing spell. Even by 1956 they had not had their fill of inertia...
...defeat took the glint away from two superb individual performances for Harvard. Though he seldom was able to shake loose for a clear shot Keith Sedlacek's shooting was deadly; he had 23 points for the night. And center Barry Williams played fiercely aggressive basketball for 40 minutes, dominating rebounding and scoring 18 points...