Word: hanged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than the other. This is the difference between science and art. Old science is no longer useful, but art of one age is just as good as that of another." In arranging the show, he tried "to pounce on any contrasts or similarities." Baroque Italian cupids by Guido Reni hang beside Isamu Noguchi's stainless-steel Man in Space. A gemlike 15th century English marble Pietà contributed by Seward Eric (P.A. '10), is set off by a terra-cotta Nigerian 20th century oba's (a ruler's) head, contributed by Whitney P. Foster...
Propaganda Tableau. Albania is using its own version of Mao Tse-tung's Cultural Revolution to galvanize its lethargic citizens, and portraits of Mao and Party Boss Enver Hoxha hang side by side in shops and offices. Wall posters criticize laggard factory managers and party officials, women's high heels and short dresses, and everyone who dodges early-morning gymnasium classes. Like a propaganda tableau out of Red China, party members and intellectuals gather in the fields against a majestic background of snow-capped mountains, reading Hoxha's thoughts to the toiling farmers and spurring them...
...held off this time till the next night, announcing: "We got a call from the Stage Delicatessen after the show. They wanted to hang her tongue in the window...
...Jokers are by now low cards in a worn-out deck. The subject of countless scenarios from The Lavender Hill Mob to How to Steal a Million, the hoary story of the happy heist is as much a cliche as the tale of the gun fighter who wants to hang up his shooting irons. Brisk pacing might have helped, but Michael Winner's dilatory direction slows the picture's pulse. The only theft that comes off is Michael Crawford's-and he steals the show. Currently starring in Broadway's Black Comedy, Crawford, at 24, displays...
...reason is simple: nobody knew what to say. Two of the favorites, Successor and Ruken, never got near enough to smell the roses. And Damascus, the 8-to-5 top choice who had been touted enthusiastically by the professional handicappers since last December, just managed to hang on for third money with the best jockey in the business whipping his flank...