Word: pith
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...rules of bicycle polo are similar to the traditional version, with four players on each side, all trying to swat the white wooden ball between the opposing team's goal posts. Pith helmets or padded caps are required. But the mallets are half-size with 30-in. handles, the field is only a third as large, and a player is limited to three successive hits (compared with the unlimited number in regulation polo). For girls' teams, seldom seen in pony polo, the braless look is de rigueur...
...engineer at his game board, a benign pink for the writer-hero. The trouble is that she seems to take the hero's fantasy as seriously as he does. As in her other films (Cleo from 5 to 7, Le Bonheur), she mistakes pulp for pith and winds up only with pretension...
DANIEL Patrick Moynihan's observation was apt, and its pith was as relevant to his own bailiwick of urban problems as it was to William Rogers' diplomatic domain. As the new Administration gets up-uncommonly early-in the morning, it should have little difficulty in broadly defining its goals. Specific strategies and tactics for achieving them are something else. Washington must decide soon if it is going to enter into serious arms-control talks with the Russians. The new President must make up his mind whether to frame a State of the Union address...
Died. Tsougouharu Foujita, 81, Japanese-born painter who settled in France; of cancer; in Zurich. An eccentric off canvas as well as on, Foujita reached Paris in 1913 in purple morning coat and pith helmet, went on to hobnob with the brilliant and the bizarre in the Montmartre of the '20s. He painted cats by the thousands and almost as many catlike women, achieving the first real fusion of Oriental brushwork and Western oils. He topped off his career in 1966 with a set of giant frescoes for a specially built chapel near Rheims, hoping cheerfully to "atone...
Next, who knows? She is game to go to Africa to buy up amulets from detribalized Africans. Or even pith helmets from retreating British garrisons. Her one question: "Got any contacts...