Word: pair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wholeheartedly concede that the human body is a thing of great beauty and that things of great beauty should be admired and appreciated. However, as a wife, mother and registered nurse, I find the vision of a pair of breasts bouncing over a cocktail tray outrageous to my sense of "public decency." The human body should not appear publicly out of context with the values classified roughly as "the finer things of life," including mature adult love, fine art and music...
...Team. The pair made an almost perfect space team. Inside Man McDivitt is a superb pilot and a first-class engineer who is the son of an electrical engineer. Outside Man White is a daring flyer, a fine athlete, a military career-man who is the son of a retired Air Force major general who flew everything from balloons to jets...
...fellow artist. The Merzbau was also the prototype of "environments," present-day art works that envelop viewers like architecture-fundamentally collage turned inside out. Schwitters had moved from Dada's mockery to an acceptance of commonplace ephemera as O.K. material for art. Shout Through Refuse. "A pair of socks is no less suitable to make a painting than are wood, nails, turpentine, oil and fabric." The man who said that is Pop Artist Robert Rauschenberg, but Schwitters would have thoroughly approved. Whether he would have been altogether at home with current pop art excesses is another question...
...anonymous letter suggesting that there was much more information to be had about St. Michael's. The mysterious tipster turned out to be a Swedish Jew, Goran Granquist, 25, who had wormed his way into the order and wanted to tell all. He proceeded to give the pair of reporters enough tantalizing leads to start them on a two-month job of night-and-day sleuthing...
...evening at a local amusement park. "Oh come off it." He replied. "You know that whenever you go on those wild rides you wet your pants and embarrass me." "Honestly," she pleaded. "I won't this time. I'll take care." At length the swain consented and the pair enjoyed a pleasant time on a number of the tamer riders. Then the girl urged that they try the terrifying loop-de-loop, the fastest swirling ride in the park. With some trepidation, her date agreed. After several breathtaking circular ascents their car was stopped at the uppermost point. Sure enough...