Word: litteral
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lurching subway car on New York's ancient IRT line was a meticu lous replica of the real thing, complete with dirty windows and a scurfy litter of candy wrappers on the floor. It had been built from plans furnished by the New York Transit Authority, and set up in a Brooklyn studio for a Du Pont Show of the Week play called "Ride with Terror," by Nicholas Baehr...
...long line of limousines cruised down the hill to Washington and, as evening came, the crowd drifted away, the television crews dismantled their equipment, the drums stopped pounding. That night, while the flame flickered in the dark over heaps of wreaths and flowers and a litter of film wrappings, crumpled bags and rolls of TV cable, Jackie Kennedy returned to the grave with Bobby. She put a small bouquet of lilies on the grave, prayed, wept, and went away...
...satellite Relay I. Even before Lee Oswald was formally charged with the murder, CBS put on the air an Oswald interview taped by a New Orleans station last August. ABC telecast a film taken from inside the warehouse where the killer had knelt; the camera played on a litter of chicken bones. Each moment of the unfolding story flashed before millions of eyes: Jacqueline Kennedy, her suit and stockings still bloodstained, getting into a Dallas hearse with her husband's body; the coffin arriving at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington; Lyndon Johnson speaking haltingly through his first public...
Professional Nomad. Collateral descendant of his courtly Elizabethan namesake, Bacon is a ruddy, puffy Pan whose brown hair is ungreyed at 54. He is a self-taught artist and a loner among modern artists. He lives like a loner-staying barely long enough in any one London flat to litter it and leave. Last week, having just ended a four-month toot, Bacon was back at his easel in a South Kensington mews flat that has been home for a scant fortnight. At the same time, 65 of his oils went on exhibit in Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum...
...then he is indulging in an act that to my mind has become distasteful, if not immoral. This sense of obligation to sex becomes intensified under restrictive social rules. It is my impression that this sense of obligation accounts for most of the millions of sexual casualties that presently litter our land...