Word: midday
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Some vestigial habits remained. The dozens of bolts that held Caro's Midday (1960) together are, for the most part, ornamental: a kind of decorative texture, like studs on a jacket. But by 1962, when he made Early One Morning, Caro was in full control of his sculptural means. Its red paint is so intense as to produce a vibration, a smarting optical dazzle. This lightness and disembodiment is reinforced by the forms; they touch and spring away from one another with a delectably airy insouciance. Caro's sculpture from now on would be a matter of touch...
...years. Mrs. Alioto startled her husband last year by disappearing for a 17-day tour of California missions during Alioto's unsuccessful gubernatorial bid, later chiding him publicly for neglecting her. Last week the mayor said he was startled once again, when a reporter phoned his office in midday to disclose that Angelina had filed for divorce, asking the court for alimony and a substantial chunk of Alioto's estimated $6 million estate...
When we last left Margo Flax, middle-aged divorcee, her frantic love for a younger man had caused her to undergo a facelift. That, to be sure, was nothing spectacular for the script of All My Children, one of television's soapiest midday dramas. Yet when kindly Dr. Julien removed the bandages from Margo's uplifted face before 10 million viewers this week, the postoperative black eyes and discolored skin thus exposed were in very living color. It turns out that Eileen Letchworth, fiftyish, the actress who has been Margo Flax for the past two years...
...members of the Senate Republican policy committee, joined by other Republican Senators, held their regular weekly luncheon on Capitol Hill. As they met on a day in which rumors of possible resignation were running wild, initially sending the Dow Jones industrial average up a startling 25 points by midday, the Senators were grim. Explained Tower later: "There was considerable concern that the President did not really understand the mood of the Senate, that he did not fully comprehend the peril he faced if he came to trial here...
...Midday Friday, the presidential party of 350 persons, including 130 newsmen, will fly to Saudi Arabia, where President Nixon will spend l½ days with King Faisal. Although the King was the prime mover behind the oil embargo after the October war, he has nonetheless maintained his ties to the U.S. Last week Kissinger and Faisal's half brother, Prince Fahd, signed an agreement in Washington that had the aim of assuring the U.S. a steady flow of oil while Saudi Arabia gets American technical assistance to spur on its economy. During his talks with the King, Nixon...