Word: impish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Picasso remains astonishingly inventive. The largest works, of course, are Picasso's monuments, represented by the model for the recently installed Chicago Civic Center sculpture and a photomontage of a heroic female figure to be installed in The Netherlands. The smallest are the impish, effervescent, often forthrightly erotic metal cutouts. Brightly painted and deftly bent, they look like cubist paintings in 21 dimensions-and, by a curious coincidence, 21 dimensions is what dozens of younger painters are going for right...
COUSY COZY WITH COSA? headlined the impish New York Daily News, and the thought alone was enough to appall the millions who have admired Bob Cousy, 39, onetime basketball superstar with the Boston Celtics and now coach at Boston College. The question arose from an article in LIFE tying Cousy to a Springfield, Mass., saloon owner and syndicate gambler named Andrew Pradella. In an emotional, 70-minute press conference, Cousy choked and sobbed as he admitted that he had known Pradella well for 13 years, had played golf with him and seen him socially. He had learned for the first...
...cancer; in Brussels. A short, stocky Belgian, Magritte called himself a "secret agent," alluding to the disparity between appearance and reality in both his life and art. He painted as he dressed, mostly in banker's black and grey, composing his scenes with photographic accuracy. But what impish fantasies: cigar boxes puffing smoke, a leaden sky raining tiny, bowler-hatted figures, the leaning tower of Pisa buttressed by a feather, Botticelli's Primavera superimposed on the back of a businessman's overcoat. "People are always looking for symbolism in my work," he once said. "There is none...
...work on the mound, Marichal is a study in contrasts. His chubby face and impish grin provide the perfect mask for his fierce concentration on the task at hand. His mental "book" on the weaknesses of National League batters is so detailed that Giants Catcher Tom Haller never even bothers to go over the opposing line-up before a game. His stockiness (5 ft. 11 in., 190 Ibs.) belies his agility and grace. Marichal's overhand pitching motion is wonderful to behold: rocking back, kicking his left foot high above his head-higher than any other pitcher in memory...
...London just up the Thames. The city yielded to neighboring Westminster and ultimately to the symbol of Victoria's empire, Buckingham Palace. After its latest shift, London's heart has come to rest somewhere in Mayfair, between the green fields and orators of Hyde Park and the impish statue of Eros in Piccadilly Circus...