Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Abstract expressionists won no enthusiasm. A huge Mathieu went for a paltry $5,250. Hartigan hit $3,000 but had a low of $700; Okada hit $2,000, Marca-Relli $3,000. The real surprise of the evening was a quiet, 1952 still life of ceramic ware, plain as a cupboard and less abstract than a Cezanne, by 73-year-old Giorgio Morandi. Winning...
...when she discovers the tell-tale scar on her lover's arm. There could not be a more dramatic, or terrible, moment for her to make this discovery. Moreover, the eroticism is tempered by the physical appearance of Actress Federspiel; she has appealing, lambent eyes, and she has a plain face and physical proportions that are not apt to excite. She arouses sympathy, not sensuality. If any cinema sex is meaningful, this is surely...
...Montejurra were out in force to honor their current pretender to the throne, Prince Carlos Hugo, who last month married the wayward Princess Irene of the Netherlands and hopes to use her considerable fortune to advance his ambitions. But the problem of the reign in Spain is anything but plain, for Prince Carlos has prestigious rivals...
...stage. Predictably, Judge Brown refused. Moreno also had asked former Defense Counsel Melvin Belli to re-enact his own part. Belli accepted, then failed to show. But every role had volunteers, and though members of the audience who sat as a mock jury took no vote, their consensus was plain: if the Dallas jury box had been packed with psychiatrists, Ruby would have been found "insane...
...afternoon last week, an 18-year-old switchboard girl named Olga Romero hurtled naked and screaming down the stairs of a building on busy East Tremont Avenue in The Bronx. In the vestibule, in plain sight of the street (the door was open), she lay screaming and bleeding, while a man struggled to drag her upstairs again. "Help me!" she cried again and again. "He raped me." Heads popped out of offices along the hallway, and a crowd of about 40 gathered outside to watch. No one made any move on her behalf. No one called the police...