Word: nakedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Loftily Kesselring defended his part in the business. "Reprisals and the shooting of civilians as a last resort," he said, smiling in the harsh light of the courtroom's naked bulbs, "are nowhere prohibited by international law." (In a general sense, this statement was true, although it did not...
Streaking across the afternoon sky, this comet brought astronomers from all corners of the nation to Cambridge, where, it was rumored, existed an observation station. Disappointment was great upon discovery of University astronomers peering skyward with hand-shielded but naked eye, just as the visitors had already done.
So Mrs. Whitman designed her bright colors in elaborate motifs, gave each motif a name. Examples: a yellow ticker tape tangled with prancing red devils, called "Ticker Tape"; a naked urchin facing a dark-green background of cactus, called "Cactus Also Needs Water." (There are also a few less discreet...
Totem & Taboo. For his latest and most lavish book Covarrubias (and his Los Angeles-born wife Rose) worked on & off for six years. He first went to the isthmus in the early '20s, when it was still possible to find the Tehuantepec River filled twice daily with naked bathers...
Beware the Weak. Malaparte says he dined with German Governor General Hans Frank at his Warsaw palace, heard him extol German Kultur, play Chopin with delicacy, later that same night saw him use a live child for target practice while the women of the party giggled. Says Malaparte: "In no...