Word: skeins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...told Royo where to add a canvas patch, where to drape a cascade of wool, where to drop coils of fishermen's rope. Says Miró: "Wool and weaving give me a great sensual feeling." Agrees Royo: "When he picks up a skein of wool, he closes his eyes to feel it, and cries, 'C'est formidable...
...almost daily rush of revelations, it is not easy for the numbed citizen to keep in mind the full enormity of "Watergate." Despite ample instances of past Government corruption, nothing can be found in U.S. history even remotely approaching the skein of events that the word Watergate no longer defines or contains. A Vice President, twice personally chosen by Nixon, forced to resign to escape jail. A former Attorney General and intimate adviser to Nixon under indictment. Another former Cabinet member under indictment. One of the two most powerful presidential aides under indictment. Six other White House aides or Administration...
...courageous buy, a great buy," said Manhattan Art Collector Ben Heller. No question about it, the Australian National Gallery's $2,000,000 bid for a 1952 Jackson Pollock abstraction owned by Heller is an audacious, if not inflationary purchase. The painting, Blue Poles, is a typical Pollock skein of blue and black dribbles. Previously, the highest sum paid for an American painting was for another Pollock by the Museum of Modern Art. Its rumored price tag: a mere...
...next day, at Annapolis, the Naval Academy carried its 27-game win streak over Harvard into its annual tilt with the Crimson and wasn't about to see the skein end, not even for charity. The Midshipmen rained 79 shots on netminders Bob Coplan and Brian Everist and coasted to a 17-1 halftime advantage and 21-4 win on attackman Nick Smilari's six goals--all in the first half--and a second quarter bombing of 11 unanswered points...
...with a hussar (Lawrence Guittard). This is our old friend from Roman comedy, the miles gloriosus, the soldier puffed up with vanity, rage (when he encounters Cariou), and the sternly ludicrous conceit that his wife (Patricia Elliot) and his mistress ought to be equal paragons of fidelity. This tangled skein of love and its counterfeits is happily unraveled in Act II at the country house of the actress's mother (Hermione Gingold), an old crone and an amorous relic of the King of the Belgians who bestowed a duchy upon her. Her philosophy: "Solitaire is the only thing...