Word: nice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...creating works of art labored for months, even years, to perfect a single picture. They were like Yeats, who slaved an entire day to get a few lines that satisfied him. The quick pace of modern life has accelerated the painter and wrecked his work. If I draw nice circles and squares, or if you paint pretty stripes set off with excellent polka dots, we have not made art, because, as we have all been saying for years while only half believing it, anybody can do that...
...maintains a cheerful mien, admits that he is "stingy" and "stubborn." When his staff celebrated his 56th birthday last week by giving him an "economy" cake that had a 10% slice missing and only 90% of its proper allotment of candles, the Governor could only agree that it was nice to be 50.4 again...
...paneling, Tiffany lamps and sawdust floors, the entertainment to jukeboxes stocked with the latest rock 'n' roll hits. Signs sometimes read: "Age Limit: 24 for Men, 21 for Women." Once the word is passed by the powder-room tom-toms that a particular hangout has become "a nice place to meet people," the rush is on. "After that," says Don Hogan, 39, manager of Denver's Piccadilly, "it all depends on what they work out together-kind of like electrolysis...
...enough to handle the specialized vocabulary various occupations require. The motivation, however, need not be vocational. Mrs. Alfred Bloomingdale of Beverly Hills, whose husband is the French-speaking president of the Diners' Club, found each day both "exhausting and exhilarating." She also discovered that "it's so nice to know what your husband is talking about...
Beneath the roughage, Funeral has nice touches, not one of them remotely technical. Palmer is one spy who uses public transportation. When his superior orders him to elimi ate an untrustworthy comrade, he replies incredulously, "I'm not going to kill anyone in cold blood." In other words...