Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tanganyika, the Masai were fierce, sensual warriors who used dung and ochre for hair oil and drank cattle blood laced with urine. In periodic sport they swooped down on their Bantu neighbors, ramming seven-foot spears through the males and carrying off their women, who often did not seem to mind; the tall, aristocratic Masai were notable men, and Masai wives did not work...
...decades since then, few foreigners have seen Bukhara. But its neighboring ancient cities on the vast Central Asian steppes seem to have learned their lesson. In the bustling streets of modern Tashkent and the redolent, mud-walled courtyards of Samarkand (pop. 170,000), short, moonfaced Uzbeks with golden skin and embroidered skullcaps no longer call the Russians hated koperlar (infidels). The commissars have done their work well. This summer hundreds of tourists, many of them Americans, flying southeast from Moscow in swift TU-IO4 jets that make the 2,500-mile trip to Tashkent in four hours, have been rewarded...
...auto traffic came down from New York's Triborough Bridge; airliners thundered overhead on the way out of La Guardia Airport; the loudspeakers squealed and squawked. But at Randall's Island, the East River playground used mostly for track meets and soccer matches, the disturbances did not seem to matter. In three days, 60,000 fans packed the stadium for the fourth annual Randall's Island Jazz Festival, and made it the world's biggest jam session, displacing even the famed Newport Festival. The jazz buffs had come (at up to $4.50 a ticket) to hear...
...range from $2 to $8.13 a day, leave hardly a news beat unexploited. Bullfighters commonly reserve up to one-third of a season's take for newspaper, radio and TV critics, who might otherwise ungraciously give top billing to the bulls. For pesos the journalists make lackluster movies seem works of art, and prizefighters jewels of virtuosity. And woe betide the motorist who, after an accident, neglects to grease a police reporter's outstretched palm: next day's story may suggest the innocent driver was drunk or (if he is married) in the diverting company...
...Fred Berger, 35, works in an advertising studio, paints snarling heads that seem embedded in rock. His purpose: "To show man as a creature who is at once magnificent and terrifying...