Word: plates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about her; why doesn't somebody stop talking and start to feed her? When I came to America, five years ago, I weighed only 98 Ibs. Now that good people have fed me, I weigh 160 Ibs. and I feel very good. Twiggy has nothing on her dinner plate. If I can donate some dinner, let me know...
...told his lawyer, Oliver Lofton, a former aide to Under Secretary of State Nicholas DeB. Katzenbach). He rents a one-room apartment in Newark's "Ironbound" district (so named for its wrap-around railroad lines), has a collection of 25 "cool" jazz records, and is saving for a plate to replace his missing front teeth (lost in an accident years ago). Says Smith, a quiet and articulate man: "I got to tighten up my upper register and study a little harmony." Before last week he had been ticketed five times-not much by cabby standards-for minor traffic violations...
...Ikeda's work also reflects Japanese life and artistic traditions. While supporting himself by doing portraits of bar patrons along Tokyo's Ginza (at 280 apiece), he studied older graphic techniques, and from them evolved his own distinctive style, in which he scratches directly on a metal plate with an etching needle to obtain a nervous, dramatically blurred line. "Why do Westerners insist that Japanese artists remain 'quaint' and 'traditional' in order to fit their image of artistry in Japan?" he asks. "We dress just as Americans do; we drink Coca-Cola just...
...looks like the Houston bat boy - until he swings a bat. Last month in St. Louis' Busch Stadium, Wynn became the third player in history (the others: Joe Torre and Willie Mays) to bounce a ball off the beer sign in left centerfield, 440 ft. from home plate. In Cincinnati, he hit two home runs over Crosley Field's 45-ft.-high Scoreboard - one of which carried all the way onto an exit ramp of the Mill Creek Expressway...
...Japanese companies from 15% to a still meager 20%. As far as new ventures go, non-Japanese capital will be allowed a 100% interest in 17 industries such as cement, steel and shipbuilding-areas in which Japanese firms are almost unchallengeable. In 33 other fields, including cameras, watches and plate glass, outsiders will be permitted up to a 50% interest, as long as control stays with Japanese partners...