Word: plum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Plum & Apricot. His latest show is also largely women-but, reflecting the fact that De Kooning has become a year-round resident of The Springs, near East Hampton on the tip of Long Island, they are now red-lipped exurban earth goddesses, bitchily toothy yet pudgily placid. These women blend into their surroundings of golden beaches, russet leaves and close-cropped lawns. And they are accompanied by other members of the family circle. De Kooning's Cybele has found a froglike mate, titled Man, a leering Cyclopean nude, contorted in some private courting ritual. Their bloated offspring, as seen...
Otero's biographer, Arthur H. Lewis (The Day They Shook the Plum Tree), is a former newspaperman in the old copydesk tradition, relying heavily on choice clips and spicy quotes. He also does his duty by psychology and suggests that the fatherless Otero's entire life may not have been so much a triumphant romp as a protest against the man who raped her. If so, she certainly kept on protesting-and protesting. She had her last lover, it has been said, at 60. A compulsive gambler, she had lost her entire fortune by 1926 at the casino...
...better. With two 100-mm. brands, L. & M. Menthol Tails and Golden 100s, already out, L. & M. announced national distribution of Chesterfield 101s. The new cigarette is actually 1 mm., or 39/l,OOOths of an inch -the thickness of a dime-longer than competitors, and appears in a plum-colored pack with a large "101" on the front. To emphasize the difference and to create image, L. & M. will play on the "silly millimeter longer" feature of the cigarette, has earmarked a reported $15 million for advertising...
...overlooking jewelry and other valuables. Archerd was unaffected by the unsought medication, but his wife went from convulsions into a coma and died. If they found anything odd in such a story, Covina police found no cause for arrest. Kindly Uncle William. The third unfortunate, in 1958, was Juanita Plum Archerd, wife No. 5. Two days after their marriage in Las Vegas, Juanita was taken to the hospital, suffering from what was described as an overdose of barbiturates. She died the next day of a condition that looked strangely like insulin poisoning. Frank Stewart, 54, was the fourth...
...leaves for Plum Island, Sat., July 15, at 1 p.m. from in front of the Union and will return by 9 p.m. Limited to 50 people. Sign up at 4 Matthews Hall...