Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would let Congress cut anywhere it wanted. Neither side seems likely to give in any time soon. Some key figures in the dispute think that the whole matter will be left up to a new Congress and a new President. Meanwhile, the economy spurts ahead, with no slowdown in sight...
...March 29 he bought a .243 Remington rifle at a Birmingham sporting-goods store. Next day he returned to exchange it for a .30-'06, explaining that "my brother" had decided they needed a different weapon for a planned hunting trip. He also bought a telescopic sight and had it mounted by the store...
...Ginzburg puts his hand to seems to last very long. When Eros folded in 1963, it was followed a year later by Fact, which bogged down in exposes of everything from the danger of contact lenses to the uselessness of circumcision -not to mention a psychoanalysis of Barry Goldwater, sight unseen, by a group of overeager psychiatrists. Barry sued for $2,000,000, and the case is set for trial next month. Finding Fact too "grim" for his taste, Ginzburg folded it last summer...
...piece with Updike's general reverence toward sex. His contemporaries invade the ground with wild Dionysian yelps, mocking both the taboos that would make it forbidden and the lust that drives men to it. Updike can be honest about it, and his descriptions of the sight, taste and texture of women's bodies can be perfect little madrigals...
Most of the new works are by California artists who practice a particularly virulent form of pop art known as "funk," the aim of which seems to be to put on everything and everyone in sight. Mentor of the group is San Francisco Sculptor Peter Voulkos, now 44, who a decade ago at Los Angeles' Otis Art Institute introduced a whole generation of art students to ceramics. Among his disciples was Berkeley's James Melchert, 37, who today turns out baffling ceramic figurines molded like coffee mugs, Mickey Mouse heads or crumpled rags; they are to be used...