Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...positions of power. The bureaucrats who enforce school-desegregation guidelines "don't have enough sense to know how to get out of bed in the morning, so they have to write a guideline for us." Intellectuals are "overeducated, ivory-tower folk," or "pointy-headed professors who can't even park a bicycle straight." He says: "Any truck driver'd know right off what to do at the scene of an accident, but you take a college professor, he'd just stand around lookin' and gettin' sick...
...Yardlings meet Cornell Saturday at 11:30 in Franklin Park, in what Coach "Pappy" Hunt rates as one of the three toughest meets this year...
...Goldie Hawn, 22, a former chorus girl from Tacoma Park, Md., is the resident dumdum who takes all the verbal pratfalls. In the thick of quick exchanges, she will giggle, shake her haystack pile of blonde hair and say in a little meowing voice: "I forgot the question." At first, her fluffs were a case of misreading the cue cards. Now they are part of the act, as when she bites her lip and chirps: "I don't like Viet Cong because in the movie he nearly wrecked the Empire State Building...
Cascade of Grease. In many ways, the patron saint of the exhibit is Soft Sculptor Claes Oldenburg, who last year got the City of New York to hire two gravediggers to dig a hole for him in Manhattan's Central Park, then fill it in, thereby burying a nonexistent "underground sculpture." His offering this time round: a Plexiglas cube stocked with night crawlers and humus, titled Worm Earth Piece. Minimal Sculptor Robert Morris, on the other hand, used the gallery as a site on which to build an earthwork out of 1,200 pounds of dirt and peat moss...
...Camino Real might well have been a tall tower a few blocks from the fashionable Reforma boulevard, with its rooms overlooking Mexico City's great Chapultepec Park and an undistinguished, slightly seedy neighborhood. Instead, its brick-bearing walls rise just five stories high, and the 750 rooms all look inward over landscaped patios with gardens and glistening pools. Why? In part because the owners, the Western International hotel chain, wanted to build something different in Mexico City. Another reason, according to Jose Brockman, president of Western International Hotels de Mexico, "a high-rise hotel would have cost three times...