Word: rugs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four children to Atlanta, where he shares the pulpit of the Ebenezer Baptist Church with his father. His house, near the church, is an old, two-story, four-bedroom place. Paintings with African themes and a photograph of Gandhi hang on the walls. There is a threadbare scatter rug in the living room, two chairs protected with plastic, and a couch in need of a new slip
...into three Lenines masquerading as Chinese and as seen from six yards appear as the head of a royal tiger. The painting lives up to every detail in its title. Explains Dali: "Eeet is like le floor of a hotel room que je stayed in avec mosaic and a rug shaped like the head of a tigre." The heads of Lenin, filling triangles between the mosaic squares are disguised as Fu Manchu, and the whole work forms a tiger head...
...mama (Mildred Natwick) drops in earlier. So does Victor Velasco (Kurt Kaszner), an average Continental charmer. This sets a zany subplot in motion: Can a lonely New Jersey pill popper who sleeps on a board find enduring happiness with an ebullient Hungarian gourmet who sleeps on a rug? It takes an uproarious culinary trek to Staten Island and several draughts of ouzo, the Greek tequila, to resolve this dilemma. Meanwhile, Corie and Paul have a lallapalouzo of a spat. Corie's mother primes a happy last-act curtain with some classic advice on how to hold a man: "Make...
...foreign aid and trade concessions might really woo Tito away from Communism. A lot of Americans were skeptical, but Kennan persisted. Then, at the famed "neutralist" conference in Belgrade in September 1961, Tito pulled out the rug with a vicious anti-Western speech...
...name of long-suffering art." As for Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, everyone had a field day. Julian Street's description of it as an "explosion in a shingle factory" became almost a household phrase. Teddy Roosevelt compared it unfavorably to a Navajo rug in his bathroom-which, he thought, was "a far more satisfactory and decorative picture...