Word: modeler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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RIVERS OF BLOOD, YEARS OF DARKNESS, by Robert Conot. The 1965 Watts riot, model for the urban violence of today, is painfully and poignantly dissected to uncover the cancer of Negro despair...
...live in Teheran's Saadabad Palace in the summer, move to the better-heated Niavaran Palace when the cold weather comes. The Saadabad has been equipped with a regulation bowling alley, and the Shah uses it at least once a week. He also watches spy movies and operates model trains. He no longer roars around Teheran in a Ferrari, but is a jet pilot with 5,000 hours' experience in flying just about everything but carpets. Both he and Farah-his third wife*-like nothing better than to escape for a skiing holiday in Switzerland or a week...
...Unlike his men, Stüssy's women are not restrained, but have a disturbing, enigmatic mien, remote and goddess-like. In part, their arresting effect comes from his daring use of materials. Guilty Eve of the Garden is a collage built round the photograph of a Vogue model's face; Virgin: A Consolation uses almost nothing but the backs of old canvases; Female Mosaic uses plastic-lace doilies as stencils. Even more surprising are such conceptions as She and Me, in which Stüssy's bearded face is superimposed on a nude figure, with...
...more adventurous design their own around Volkswagen engines or the sturdy, simple Model A Ford motor. In a pinch, almost any old engine will do. One latter-day Orville Wright powered his homemade biplane with a pair of chain-saw motors...
While labor negotiations at strike-bound Ford and the other auto companies wore on last week, a finale of sorts was reached in another regular Detroit drama: the annual reshuffling of new-model prices...