Word: patchwork
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...most ambitious message on transportation that any President has addressed to Congress, Kennedy proposed an entire complex of fresh laws to replace "a chaotic patchwork of inconsistent and often obsolete legislation." The President sought to spur the U.S. Government into a coherent and long-overdue adjustment to the changing economic facts of life in the transportation business...
...shoot if the U.N. tried to intervene. Not until angry U.N. aides induced Tshombe and two of his Cabinet ministers to drive to the camp was Urquhart released. "I was sure I was going to die there,'' he said after he left the hospital, where he got patchwork on his smashed nose, bruised skull and battered ribs...
Love-Smitten Minotaur. More portraits of Marie-Thėrėse follow before the dark features of Dora Maar, Picasso's next love, appear. There are some cityscapes, bright as a patchwork quilt, and later a series on one of Picasso's favorite themes, the Minotaur. This time, the artist was thinking of a legend in which three muses come upon the Minotaur dying on a beach. Two flee at the sight of his ugliness, but one stays to nurse him back to health. "Forever thereafter, while she floated offshore, he spent his days sitting where...
Crisscross & Patchwork. "For me," she says, "the art of painting is an adventure. When I paint a landscape or a seascape. I'm not very sure it's a landscape or a seascape. It's a thought form rather than a realistic form." This vagueness makes a Vieira da Silva painting something of an adventure for the viewer as well. He may see a distant city, a clump of ruins. a suggestion of a bridge, a wispy shoreline, or just a shredded bit of grill. But whatever he sees may not be there for long. When...
National Amity. Malaya's politicians have become practical and moderate out of bitter experience with extremes. After many weary years (1948-60) of fighting Communists, they are not dazzled by grandiose schemes of social change. Since the nation of 7,000,000 people is a patchwork of Malays (50%), Chinese (37%) and Indians (11%), all with divided loyalties, Malaya's leaders must compromise to make progress. They cannot afford the truculent nationalism of other emerging nations...