Word: hiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TECHNOLOGY has devised a new nudity. No starlet could half-hide under bubbles in Babette Newburger's clear blown Plexiglas bathtub. The tub stands on four carved Plexiglas human legs at the Contemporary Crafts' Plastic as Plastic exhibit, which is the most gleamingly contemporary and pertinent of any in New York...
Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford was obviously upset by Saigon's intransigence and unable to hide his pique. Saigon had known all along that the National Liberation Front would accompany Hanoi to the Paris peace talks, he told a press conference. The South Vietnamese, Clifford said, had pulled out of the deal "in the ninth inning." Then he added: "We should make every reasonable effort to demonstrate to Saigon why it should come in and join the talks. At the same time, if they choose not to, I believe the President has the constitutional responsibility of proceeding with...
...infantrymen, the Soviet version of Marines, stroll the streets of Damascus. Intelligence trawlers refuel at what has become the Soviets' main Mediterranean port of call, Alexandria. Soviet patrol boats tie up 1,700 miles to the west at the Algerian port of Mers-el-Kebir. Soviet subs play hide-and-seek with NATO patrols underneath the heel of Italy. Overhead, from bases in Egypt, Soviet "Badger" class planes, their red stars painted over with Egyptian markings, wing daily across the Mediterranean to shadow Allied fleets...
...became artificial. The communist revolution seemed to fit China into the categories of Western social science, but at the same time deprived students of the facts to support their generalizations. China was revealed to be a modernizing state and a communist state, but the bamboo curtain clacked shut to hide the hows and whys. China experts were left to reconstruct a tower out of the cotton candy spinning out of Hong-Kong: a dribble of official publications, captured documents, refugees and personal accounts of travel in China...
...either learn to groove on the unexpected, or you freak out. The unexpected is always there, right under our noses, and acid makes you see it. No matter how hard the plasterer tries to make the ceiling level there is always room for an A-rab to hide...