Word: pram
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Through checkpoints in the Berlin Wall they streamed, in Volkswagens and DKWs newly polished for the occasion, on elevated trains and subways, by pram, by wheelchair and on foot. Though limited to a maximum of 100,000 a day by the new Christmas season-pass agreement negotiated last month by East Germany and West Berlin, and dunned three West German marks (75?) for the privilege, more than 500,000 West Berliners were expected to make two trips apiece to visit their relatives in East Berlin during the 16-day holiday period...
...sensuous nude as if she were a manicurist, while a wet nurse in open brassiere wraps a ribbon through the girl's hair. Harsh, disjointed architecture unsettles the scene. It is no longer important that Kitaj has combined figures from German and French anatomical discourses with an English pram. For him, this painting conjures up his native state and the curious syndrome in American literature?you can't go home again. His real subjects are violence, alienation, social misery and loneliness...
Preoccupied with pub, pram and payments on their proliferating cars and washing machines, the British voters continued to bask in a magnificent Indian summer, seemed interested mostly in the diversions of the campaign. The Daily Mail put on the front page a picture of a pretty makeup girl powdering Sir Alec's nose before a TV appearance, relegated what he said to page...
...plot remains pretty much the same; both versions are based on the novel by the late John Buchan. The hero (Kenneth More), while strolling in Kensington Gardens, sees a nanny struck down by a hit-and-run driver and pursues her runaway pram. Instead of a baby he finds a gun inside. Next day the nanny, recovered from the accident, visits the hero's flat and announces herself as a British agent who has just about got the goods on a big international spy ring. But when the hero leaves the room to arrange a spot of tea, somebody...
...Cold to Hurt. "There are lots of fancy ideas about the motivation for starting frostbiting," says Knapp. "But I say it's simple. The motivation was gin. This nonsense started in 1932, at the Knickerbocker Yacht Club in Manhasset. Somebody had imported some English pram sailing dinghies. There was a big argument, after some bathtub gin, over the merits of dinghies, and we decided to have a regatta on New Year's Day. G. Colin Ratsey won the race. He's now a partner in the sailmaking firm of Ratsey