Word: irises
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Waiters wedged through the crowd trying to serve champagne and French biscuits. Only the sculpture was unmoved by the crush. The outstretched leg of Rodin's Iris was a hazard for every passing guest. Tripped up by Henry Moore's sprawling, 800-lb. King and Queen, a white...
Wistful Appeal. Appearing six times a week, Ainsworth's column is as old-fashioned as handset type, but Angelenos who spend their days in the clatter and clutter of megalopolis find wistful appeal in a report that the town of Arcadia "has sounded taps for the last chicken farm...
THE UNICORN (311 pp.)-Iris Murdoch-Viking ($5).
In a gesture that seems both apologetic and pompous, Graham Greene has insisted that his light novels (those in which God does not have a speaking part) should be called "entertainments." The tag does not fit all light novels, because it carries the implication that the author can write much...
British Foreign Office, hopes to find out. Perhaps V. stands for Venezuela, and an abortive political plot of the turn of the century. Perhaps it stands for Vesuvius, or for Valletta, the capital of Malta. More likely, but not at all certainly, it is the first initial of the name...