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...That meow was too much for one alien wife, Mrs. Joan Das of Bombay. "Pity the poor Western wife!" she answered. "If she brings her national customs over to India, she is being hopelessly insular; and if she tries to adopt Indian customs, she becomes hopelessly ridiculous. I am hanging on to my saris, because I have faith in India and Indians. I can hardly believe that every Indian I have met during the past ten years, while paying me compliments with his lips, has secretly been laughing up his sleeve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ASIA: The Mating of East & West | 9/5/1960 | See Source »

...spry, bright-eyed man of 75, whose working companion these days is a sweet-faced alley cat with a raucous meow, De Creeft took one sensational detour while still in Paris. It happened one day when "I was sick in the bed." The great flamenco dancer Escudero suddenly burst in and demanded that he make something for a party that would take place that night. De Creeft gazed up at the cold stovepipes that crossed his studio ceiling and, though still muy mal, put together his famous Picador. Almost overnight he was hailed as the founder of a new school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: True to Life | 5/23/1960 | See Source »

Grace Kelly, naturally, is a wealthy young American woman who finally decides she wants to be The Cat's meow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 15, 1955 | 8/15/1955 | See Source »

...chemical" and "static" poems. Their art was a lunatic satire on all advance-guard art: "modern" pictures of women with matchstick faces, cut-out heads filled with grinding gears and cogs. And when they held an exhibition, they were likely to walk around with white gloves but without ties, meow like cats, carefully count the pearls of visiting dowagers, and invite the boys from the bar next door in for a fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Dadadadada | 4/27/1953 | See Source »

Jomo for Jesus. Reinforced with regular troops, Sir Evelyn Baring, Kenya's newly appointed governor, felt strong enough to hit back at the Mau Mau (the Lancashire Fusiliers, noting the Mau Mau habit of nailing headless cats to their victims' doors, christened the terrorists Meow-Meows). Armored cars roared out along the main highways, spotter planes swooped low over the Kiyuyu reserve. Covered by the Fusiliers, Kenya cops grabbed hundreds of suspected terrorists in Nairobi's native quarter, pounced on scores of others lurking in forest hideouts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENYA: The Meow-Meows | 11/3/1952 | See Source »

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