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...must confess I liked best the simplest of the dances, performed not by Shanta Rao herself but by her assistants, Chandramati and Padma. Imagine if you can an Indian Sophia Loren, as my companion in the audience suggested, and a lovely doll-like Oriental performing a dance of intense flirtation with the audience, whispering silently to them, looking them in the eye. One was sultry, pouting; the other prim and coquettish; yet both were dancing the same steps. When one glared out of the corner of her eye, the other peeked; yet both moved their eyes at the same time...
They are more than that; they are machos. Whether involved with a mistress, a mishap or an election, the Latin American male is constantly forced to prove his aggressive masculinity by a compelling phenomenon called machismo. In its simplest form, machismo is the gaudy bravado of the bullfighter, the outdoor he-manliness of the gaucho, the straightforward heterosexuality of the playboy. "The kind of man that men follow and women chase" is how one Peruvian woman defines it. But the trait goes farther than simple male ego. It turns arguments into blood feuds, business dealings into tests of strength...
Doubling the Megaton. The U.S. is -and has been for several years-committed to such "saturation" strategy. In its simplest terms, this means avoiding reliance on a few huge bombs, peppering an enemy nation with hundreds of relatively small ones. Since devastation does not increase arithmetically with megaton power, two 10-megaton warheads properly placed can do almost as much damage as one 100-megaton giant. The Pentagon goes under the assumption that accuracy-even in saturation-is the key to success, that if a missile's accuracy is bettered by 20%, it is equivalent to doubling the megaton...
...cheapest and simplest protection for direct viewing throughout the eclipse is a filter made from two layers of exposed and developed black and white film...
Albers is best known for his squares within squares, which leave his colors entirely independent of anything but the simplest form. Anuszkiewicz, now 33, keeps an equally rigid control over his work, but he allows his colors to perform in far more complex settings. In 1960, he began a series of paintings that used only two colors-a "hot" one and a "cool" one. These he placed in patterns made up of almost identical little shapes that moved from background to foreground and vice versa according to how he colored them...