Word: ladened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sees sex not as a target but as a sanctuary. Scenes that other writers would play as burlesque, Updike plays straight, no matter how absurd they are. In Couples, for example, Piet and Foxy have huddled in an upstairs bathroom during the Kennedy night party. Her breasts are milk-laden after the birth of her baby. "Nurse me!," begs Piet. Foxy consents, but moments later, Angela knocks at the door In panic, Piet leaps out of the window to the ground two floors below. The author never even winks...
...dawn, troop-car rying Israeli helicopters lifted off their pads near Jericho and Sodom and raced eastward deep into neighboring Jordan. As soon as they had landed their in fantrymen in blocking positions, the main Israeli invasion force began to roll. North of the Dead Sea, Centurion tanks laden with helmeted paratroopers and halftrack personnel carriers trun dling infantrymen rumbled across the Allenby and Damiya bridges onto Jordan's East Bank. A second task force punched across the border south of the Dead Sea. Israeli artillery laid down a barrage that walked just ahead of the advancing columns...
Villanova's depth-laden team streaked to victories in two relay events. In the mile relay, which clinched the team title for Villanova, the Wildcat foursome set a meet record of 3:14.4. Villanova also captured the distance medley relay thanks to a brilliant mile anchor leg by Frank Murphy...
While his contest with Lyndon Johnson brought him the support of a variety of dissident elements, including the Nobel-laden "Scientists and Engineers for McCarthy"-many of whose members populated "Scientists and Engineers for Johnson and Humphrey" in 1964-scholarly Gene McCarthy last week got a taste of life beyond the fringe and found it disturbing. At a University of New Hampshire symposium, when Black Power Advocate William L. Strickland purred ugly platitudes labeling the U.S. "fundamentally a racist nation," the usually imperturbable Senator snapped: "I just don't agree." It was clear already that one problem he faces...
When Claude Monet painted The Terrace at Ste. Adresse in 1866, he was a young unknown of 25, visiting at the family villa outside Le Havre. There he painted his father sunning on a poppy-laden terrace with pennants flapping overhead and the bustling harbor beyond. To critics today, the painting's brilliant colors seem to mark a historic moment, the "thrusting open of French doors to the whole world of light outside." But the fashion of the 1860s was for brownish landscapes of the Barbizon school; Monet was able to sell his work for only $41. Six years...