Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Outside the trailer a stocky man says that he's Bruce Maclaughlin, the instructor and jump master that will who will later on be the one who goes up in the plane with us and gives us the push out the door. Maclaughlin is as sharp-eyed and as brusque as a boot camp sergeant. He spreads his legs, arching and throwing his head back yelling, "ARCHTHOUSAND, TWO THOUSAND, THREE THOUSAND, FOUR THOUSAND, FIVE THOUSAND, SIX THOUSAND, LOOK" he looks to his left heel. "LOOK." He looks to a release on his right pelvis, "PULL". He pulls the release. "PUNCH...
...British response has been to tighten security and try again for a political solution to the Ulster conundrum. Margaret Thatcher's Tory government has installed a trio of new commanders in Northern Ireland, headed by Britain's famed spy master, Sir Maurice Oldfield, as supreme "security coordinator" for the area. There is a new level of cooperation between Dublin and London on security measures, notably in a secret agreement that allows helicopters of each side to overfly borders for up to ten miles in pursuit of terrorists...
...revolutionary prophet. The result is Beuys as political Luftmensch, reeling off harmless Utopian generalizations about social renewal through universal creativity, supporting the Free International University, and engaging in squabbles with the Düsseldorf Academy. This, however, is less social sculpture than social packaging. Beuys is a master of the art of self-representation, the last man to become a real celebrity (as distinct from a mere famous artist) through the medium of the art world. He is the Duchamp of the engages, a position he laid formal claim to in 1964 by exhibiting a placard on West German television...
...what one might expect in a British literary lion. Chatting amiably in the sitting room of his house near London's Regent's Park, Victor Sawdon Pritchett seems more like a rural school master. There is a comfortable, unstudied eclecticism about him. His checkered trousers, striped shirt and plaid jacket have an odd camouflaging effect, especially when he stands against a large glass case containing a Victorian bouquet of stuffed pheasants, birds of paradise and a platypus. He offers no sharp opinions, no bulletins on the state of the arts...
Virginia Q. Hutchison, co-master of the House last year, said she knew nothing about the letters even though she and her husband William lived at Winthrop for half the summer...