Word: showing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bombing pause, Thieu seemed to go along with the U.S. plan. Then he hardened his stand, bluntly barring South Viet Nam's participation in the Paris talks. His defiance made him a hero at home. The often critical and divided South Vietnamese press praised him. In a show of support, some 50 members of the National Assembly paraded to the presidential palace, shouting pro-Thieu slogans and waving red-and-yellow national flags. Groups of demonstrators in Saigon carried banners reading THE PEOPLE ARE UNITED TO KILL THE COMMUNISTS AND SAFEGUARD THE COUNTRY...
...regain his selfesteem, the loser typically reduces his anguish by explaining away his defeat. Show business's fallen stars often justify their decline in terms of a mysterious force known as The Breaks (another word for fate). Other losers absorb defeat by joining a less competitive game, such as local community activism, which gives them a new chance to emerge as winners...
...sensitized creature viewing the world, and this is my statement on it." If his caricatures testify to a caustic intelligence, his watercolors reveal the telltale heart. A Brooklyn boy, Levine often visited his father's dress factory, and his deft, murkily lit watercolors of those scenes show that he remembers them fondly and well. He also spent many happy hours at Coney Island, and his sparkling yet dreamily poetic sketches recapture the sleepy magic of glinting waves, roller coasters and bulging bathers...
Inner Freedom. The Rossacher collection, while lacking the variety and consistent excellence of the Knoedler's exhibit, offers a valuable look at what almost seems to be a contradiction in terms: intimate baroque painting. Virtually every sketch in the show depicts Biblical or mythological figures arranged in elaborate compositions, dramatized with sometimes exaggerated chiaroscuro and overwrought perspective. Yet if the viewer can accommodate himself to the baroque's love of allegory, he will find the oil sketches a delight...
West Side Story--Much, much worse than the show. Badly dubbed and drippily sung, but funny in places. At the SAVOY, 163 Tremont...