Word: rakingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Other deserve warm commendation: Jane Alexander as the affectionate Julia, Terrence Currier as Bob Acres, the country bumpkin, and George Mitchell as Sir Lucius O'Trigger, the aged but still hot-headed city rake. But the warmest praise must go to Michael Murray, the director. His lively pace piles absurdity upon hilarity, yet he never crowds his little stage. His conception of the play rests upon the humor in each character, not in the situation, and he presents them as individuals with exaggerated but endearing faults. They share the same manners and conventions, but they have clearly defined personalities...
...born Hockney's first one-man show in Manhattan was a sellout when it opened last week. His painting, a poetic blend of childish innocence and sophisticated whimsicality, is often dominated by an edgy displacement of figures in space. His bite is sharp in 16 etchings for The Rake's Progress, a series on his adventures in Manhattan, inspired by Hogarth's classic. California Art Collector, explains Hockney, combines quaintness and caricature. Asked about the tiny efflorescence of white behind a support at the right of the work, Hockney replied: "Californians are very proud of their Clyfford...
...were not brought up at all at his six-day trial last week in Saigon's yellow Palais de Justice, only 50 yards from the palace where his brother once ruled. Officially, Can was charged with murdering three Hué business rivals for profit, with illegal speculation and rake-offs on government contracts...
...kite was tangled in the power line behind his home outside Houston, and the impatient youngster tried to unsnarl the mess by poking at it with a rake. Zap, crackle, pop. The line short-circuited, burned through and fell, sparking and whipping, onto a chain link fence. That was a job for Superman -but he didn't show. Fortunately another stellar hero lived next door, and Scott Carpenter, 38, came to the rescue. While a second neighbor held the wires down with a board, the astronaut laid into the 120-volt cable with a wooden-handled ax, soon...
...target. No sooner did Charles de Gaulle announce his decision to recognize Red China than the pen-and-ink brigade moved to the attack. The long, lugubrious face, with its dark, pouched eyes glowering past the promontory of a nose, was riddled with caricature. A buzzing gadfly, a silly rake wooing an Oriental tart, a kook cutting loose a dangerous dragon-De Gaulle was peppered from all sides...