Word: nightmarish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Foreign dinners can seem nightmarish. A Western-style finger bowl is "for lightly rinsing the tips of your fingers, so don't wash your hands in it." Japanese must be careful not to stretch out their legs under the table because "you may kick someone. If this is done, apologize quickly, especially in the case of a lady, for in the West this kind of thing is construed in a certain way and can invite misunderstanding." The ultimate and desperate warning: "Whatever happens, never become flustered. Be calm and cool...
...heroine of Humorist Ludwig Bemelmans' new novel is as pretty as a picture, and she poses an interesting proposition. "Evildoing when done adroitly is very exciting." she purrs. What follows should be naughty and very funny. It is nightmarish instead-like too much Liederkranz. In one of his rare excursions outside the Hotel Splendide, Funnyman Bemelmans draws a demon-driven adolescent who swears like a legionnaire, squeezes the head of an infant like a tennis ball, flips hatchets instead of hips at suitors, does her best to entice a priest, and sets fire to a convent...
...Lodge as a running mate have gone over with the public a lot better than Kennedy's speech (which swiped at Nixon) and his tactical choice of Lyndon Johnson. Round Two is the dead-end session of Congress, which is creaking toward adjournment. There Kennedy met with a nightmarish series of grim surprises and jolting defeats...
...strange, melancholy child who could spend hours in the corner of his mother's attic studio turning out nightmarish scenes of dark-skinned, contorted people and wild-eyed, gaping crocodiles and owls. He kept a dead bird hanging above his workbench, and when he was not painting, peddling or going to school, he endlessly read Gide. In time the sad-faced boy in checkered shorts became a familiar sight at the Café; des Deux Magots. From $1, his price slowly rose...
...suggested entry, had no assistance in making his final choices. Says he: "One eye had to give unity to the show." Ritchie's eye was catholic: among the 150 oils, 68 water-colors and drawings, and 47 pieces of sculpture are works from 17 countries, ranging from the nightmarish quality of Francis Bacon's Study for Head of a Pope, lent by Beekman Cannon, '34, to Paul Gauguin's sunlit Landscape at Le Pouldu, lent by Paul Mellon, '29. France leads the list with 99 entries; next is the U.S. with 42. Most represented artist...