Word: jeeping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bronze man upon a bronze horse, and who salutes? Put a plaster Eisenhower in a real Jeep, and the art world cheers. For in today's sculpture, both traditional subject matter and traditional techniques have gone by the board. Where once marble and bronze held sway, sculpture is now made of plastics, automobile fenders, even fur, carpeting and burlap. In place of the commemorative bust, the symbolic nude or heroic grouping, there are now polyester broads, overstuffed light switches, 3-D inside-out doughnuts, stuffed-leather totems, and well-welded remnants of the new Iron Age. The definition...
...guarantee an S.R.O. crowd for their execution, Duvalier ordered all businesses closed and schools let out; backlands peasants were trucked into Port-au-Prince. As TV cameras recorded the scene, a black and white Jeep pulled up to the cemetery, and out stepped the two victims. They were tied tightly to two pine stakes. "Traditional proceedings were scrupulously respected," announced Le Matin, a government newspaper. "There were three volleys of Springfields, and submachine guns, and three coups de grace." After which, the crowd was marched to the National Palace, where Duvalier, acceding to its "solicitations," appeared on the balcony...
...tired of hiding my Jeep," bellows the lord of the manor, Curt Jurgens. To please his eccentric sister, he dresses in period costume and banishes all evidence of the 20th century from the family's isolated ancestral estate in the Swedish lake country. Jurgens' second wife is Monica Vitti, a sultry charmer who enjoys a casually incestuous relationship with her brother Sébastien (Jean-Claude Brialy) and soon begins cooing with Cousin Eric (Jean-Louis Trintignant...
...them was "conspiracy against the regime, envisaging the implantation of Chinese Communism in Brazil," and it was well documented. The Red Chinese "journalists" and "trade promoters"-nine in all-had been arrested in Rio during last April's anti-Communist revolution. In their apartment and hidden in a Jeep, the cops found $100,000 in cash, plus enough letters and papers to prove that the Chinese and their Brazilian leftist friends were deep in a campaign of subversion. On trial in Rio last week, the nine faced up to 30 years in prison...
...Machines Bull (49%) and a German electrical appliance maker, is now negotiating for a share of Italy's Olivetti. IBM, whose investments throughout Western Europe are extensive, has built a striking new research laboratory at La Gaude, outside Nice. Willys has just announced plans to build a new Jeep assembly plant in Brazil, and General Mills is negotiating a joint venture to make cornflakes in Japan. The Indian government, which has often been suspicious of private investment, last week gave approval for a plan to study the building of five fertilizer plants in India at a cost...