Word: pipering
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...Englishman John Piper is in an enviable spot. His paintings are pleasant enough to appeal to middlebrows but abstract enough to satisfy the critics and all but the most austere highbrows (who think his work "too pretty"). The result: his paintings are in brisk demand, and his reputation continues to grow. Last week 31 new Piper oils and watercolors were on view in London, and the public flocked...
...tiedown cables holding the planes snapped like twine, and the wind whipped the 139-ton craft about like Piper Cubs. As the big blow struck, a C-47 was ready to take off. The pilot saw what was coming, and "flew" at full power into the teeth of the gale. The plane stood almost motionless above the field. In Carswell's control tower, the wind indicator hand shot up, indicated 91 m.p.h. Then part of the anemometer blew away...
...showdown came that afternoon when the delegates met at a reception at the Hotel de Ville. Most notable item served: champagne. Frothing like a bottle of Piper-Heidsieck '37, a British Dry announced: "You don't invite a vegetarian to dinner and then serve meat. You know, this wouldn't happen in any other country." With impeccable Gallic aplomb, the maitre d'hotel ushered the foaming Drys to a separate table set with walnut juice and other soft drinks. The Frenchmen stayed where they were, and before very long sent out for more champagne...
Director Balanchine's European advisers clucked when he scheduled jazzy, lowbrow Pied Piper for decorous Barcelona. But the Spaniards gustily swallowed every ounce of humor. Jerome Robbins' controversial The Cage was temporarily banned in The Hague because of its unusual theme of spiderlike viricide, but few Dutch hairs were turned when it was finally performed. Audiences almost everywhere agreed that one ballet was tops: oldfashioned, toe-tipping Swan Lake...
...Piper Paid. In London. British Foreign Office Clerk Gordon D. Freestone admitted stealing about ?718 ($2,010) from the consulate in Basra. Iraq, to spend on two dancing girls, but pleaded that his character had been excellent "except for those six mad weeks...