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...model of that piece of incredibilia James Bond drove in Goldfinger. Tooling around the playgrounds, Andrew can be in constant contact by two-way radio with headquarters at either Windsor Castle or Buckingham Palace. There is also a radar warning system with a three-mile radius, a protective bulletproof shield, and the punch of a button can send up a giant smoke screen or fire streams of water from the two rear reflectors. So cool it, nanny...
...Female Nude with a Shield is the of his most refined classical drawings. In it he devotes an almost scientific attention to perspective and the antique ideas of proportion. Furthermore, the representation of a nude figure is, in itself, a Renaissance rather than a medieval form. But while the format is classical, the figure he renders is far from an idealized human body. The features of the figure are awkward, bordering on the grotesque, and the line he uses to describe the anatomical details is strong and expressive. Both of these qualities earmark the drawing's Gothic spirit...
Entrants were required to submit a postcard with their name and address but Miss Marel, wanting to be distinctive, used blue stationary with a gold Radcliffe shield on it. "They said they were just going to draw at random," she said, they weren't. I wanted to make sure they got an intellectual...
...year of the U.S. buildup has thus shattered Communist hopes of any early or easy victory, turned the tide of war and brought South Viet Nam's hopes of a better life closer to reality. As General Westmoreland puts it: "A shield has been created behind which our Vietnamese allies are not only regaining their physical security but also getting on with the vital task of building a nation...
...nature of war across a wildly rugged, often inaccessible countryside, no shield can ever be impregnable everywhere, as the tragic fate of a Vietnamese compound called A Shau demonstrated last week...