Word: hiltons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York Times's Hilton Kramer dismisses Guston's paintings as a mere exercise in radical chic. Rather, they are Guston's authentic response to a personal sense of crisis. The trouble is that painting has become a clumsy way of reporting a society as turbulent and racked as this. Its clashes cannot be accounted for in single, painted images-as Goya could report the Madrid insurrection in Third of May, or Delacroix symbolize the 1830 revolution with Liberty Leading the People over the barricades of a Paris street. The task has been assumed, and done better...
...never gave up the suburban villa that he had occupied as an army lieutenant colonel, though he had it considerably enlarged. Nor did he lose the ordinary man's sense of surprise at sumptuous living. Once, while visiting Saudi Arabian royalty at the best suite in the Nile Hilton, Egypt's dictator whispered, wide-eyed, to an aide: "How much does this cost...
...going into effect, word reached Amman that Jordan's Premier Brigadier General Mohammed Daoud, who was named to that post only two weeks ago when Hussein set up an all-military Cabinet, had abruptly resigned. Daoud, in Cairo to attend the Arab summit, disappeared from his Nile Hilton hotel room, leaving a note for Hussein explaining that he was making way for a government of "national unity." His resignation, however, was due to personal as well as political considerations...
...think that they cannot sit idle in their air-conditioned offices making proclamations about the crisis in Jordan." The group, indeed, was able to engineer a merciful cease-fire in Jordan. But Arab leaders also had plenty of opportunity to sit in their air-conditioned rooms at the Nile Hilton and contemplate their growing differences...
...graduates kept the local bowling alley open all night. Next evening they assembled for a ham and beef banquet, looking prosperous for their ages and, because of state liquor laws, influencing their Cokes from brown paper bags. On each table at the Hilton Inn was a construction-paper centerpiece noting the most important events of the past ten years. In 1963, John Kennedy's assassination. In 1965, Debbie Bryant (a Kansan) named Miss America. In 1966, Kansan Jim Ryun runs the fastest mile. Not a word about Viet...