Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...explosive quality of "The New American Painting," I find abstract expressionism rather dull. Relying on sensational color and muscular painting techniques does not make a painting exciting. The most honestly painted section of a De Kooning canvas is his signature, and Kline is just plain boring after you've seen your first three...
...their tireless effort to determine how Soviet policy is made, Western diplomats are often in the position of anthropologists trying to reconstruct a dinosaur from the evidence of one jawbone. But when Nikita Khrushchev performed his clumsy about-face on the summit meeting last week, the reason was plain to see. He had been driven to it by Red China's Mao Tse-tung...
...states: 1) Communist North Viet Nam, dark as night; 2) South Viet Nam, run by a strongly anti-Communist friend of the West; 3) the unpredictable Kingdom of Cambodia, which chose "active" neutrality; 4) a Red-riddled Kingdom of Laos, which felt it could afford nothing more dynamic than "plain" neutrality...
...midnight it is plain that the show is a hit. A cameraman smothers a laugh and says, "Jack's flying. He'll be home now." Henny Youngman, a charter member of the Lindy comedians Jack so often criticizes, has dropped in to watch-as many show business pros do. Says Youngman: "This guy gives 200%; he wants to be double good. He gives out a feeling of love, that's why they look at this man. This is a tough damn...
While the common market's threat to U.S. business is plain, so are its enormous advantages. Says Dr. Lajos Schmidt, an international attorney who has helped many firms to go abroad: "The common market represents the first time that American industry can compete on an American basis in Europe." It will have close to 170 million people with high living standards-almost as large as the U.S. market. Many U.S. firms that could not afford to set up plants for any one of the six nations alone can well afford to do it for the whole market, have discovered...