Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were to have begun seven days after the U.S. halted its remaining bombing of North Vietnam on October 31, 1968. Ky's statement indicated that the reason for Saigon's delay in sending a delegation to those negotiations was because of the "plots" of U.S. officials and not the shape of the bargaining table. 'Conciliation with the aggressors who have a smaller and weaker force is not different from a defeat,' Ky stressed...
...home is on the coast, and any clear day when I look out, I see France." Domestically, Heath is in a fairly strong position at the moment despite Britain's continuing inflation and trade union opposition to his industrial-relations bill. He will be in even better shape if he manages to bring off a voluntary wage and price agreement that is currently being negotiated with the Confederation of British Industry and the Trade Union Congress...
...savagery of U.S. crime (see box next page). Yet Nixon's chief adviser on domestic affairs, John D. Ehrlichman, strongly disagrees. "The social contract lives," he said in an interview. "We have brought the rate of increase of crime down. The country is in materially better shape than when we took over." And, in fact, although the key crimes of rape and aggravated assault are still increasing, the FBI's latest statistics show that the growth in all crime slowed to 1% for the first six months of 1972, compared with 7% for the same period last year...
...retrospect, De Kooning seems to have hardly ever painted an abstract picture. The resistant surfaces of the real world are always there in the paint, whether explicitly-as in the Woman series 20 years ago-or by implication, in the fleshy rub and friction of one biomorphic shape against another. His new canvases suggest (not only by their titles) the low, flat landscapes of Long Island: high-keyed pinks and yellows and acid greens, a flicker of noon light, blue heat-haze on the potato fields, a jumble of sun-flushed legs on the sand. With a handful of minor...
...what sculpture "ought" to look like in the 1970s, De Kooning's bronzes stand in an interesting relationship to his paintings - as, indeed, the sculpture of major painters often does. Henri Matisse's casts, for instance, served as a receptacle for those instincts toward solid, feelable shape which he could not (with out violating the development of his work as a painter) get into his canvases. De Kooning imagery has long tended toward the monstrous. But the images existed in a fictional space, descended from Cubism, flattened and modulated. One may guess that De Kooning felt curious about...