Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thank God for McGeorge Bundy and the courage that permits him to speak in plain, honest language to his former colleagues [May 7]. Every word he uttered sliced like a knife through the professors' tortured and specious reasoning...
...spread the oils around, she hit the target in 1960 by attaching bags of paint to canvases, then blasting them with her .22-cal. rifle. Now that the quick-draw days are over, she has popped back into fashion with hairy sculptures tattooed with more images, inscriptions and plain gunk than any statue in the park. Her Sappho, lounging beneath a tree fruited with a skull, slouches like an Eve who has waited in vain for Adam a thousand years. Or France's Arman, 37. He accumulates things like a surplus-parts dealer and freezes them in polyester...
...wanted to make sure I didn't rub it in." If he didn't, the ninth-place Washington Senators did: they promptly took two out of three from the Yankees. Manager Johnny Keane grimly declared: "Anyone who figures we're washed up is just plain foolish." Maybe so. But the Yankees have yet to play their first game against Al Lopez' red-hot White Sox, who last week won five out of seven games to boost their league lead to 2½ games. In 1964 the Yankees beat the Sox 12 out of 18, and Lopez...
...refrigerator, a cerebral loan of Arc-to cite some of the appellations, largely invidious, that were flung at her during her prime. Periodically, she issued books, all of them painstakingly analytical and exhaustingly long. The Second Sex, a dizzy blend of pedagogy, logic, emotion, prejudice and just plain talk about woman's discontented estate, became a classic. The Mandarins, her roman á clef of life with Sartre, Camus and their intellectual confraternity, was a bestseller on both sides of the ocean despite mixed reviews; one New York critic charged that "nothing in the book but the names...
...psychiatrist first, detective second, who in this adventure is rung in to help not the bobbies but the criminal's neurotic parents. For them and for the reader, Cellini has an almost revolutionary message: some people are not spoiled by their environment or their families-they are just plain no good...