Word: skies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...virgins of Cao Dai complaining that the pope had raped them. He then called a congress of the Cao Dai hierarchy to consider the complaints. Three days before the congress met, Pope Tac decided to get out of town. Loading his two daughters and a bearded cardinal into a sky-blue Ford, he headed for Pnompenh, across the border in Cambodia. General Phuong was glad enough to let him go. Cambodian authorities made it clear that the unseated pope is welcome in their country only on the condition that he does not make a nuisance of himself. "I will take...
...before the awed eyes of 250.000 Thailanders. Most impressive unprogrammed sight: the rescue in mid-air by one paratrooper of a comrade who jumped in the same stick but whose chute failed to open. Popeyed, rice farmers saw field guns and trucks larger than their houses drop from the sky. U.S. marines, landing from 30 helicopters, fought a mock battle against "enemy" strongpoints with flamethrowers and satchel charges...
Steamy Iquitos, Peru's chief Amazon River port, was sleeping under a velvet equatorial sky when military boots first began to scrape along the streets. Tough little soldiers in suntans deployed briskly. In less than an hour, without firing a shot, they occupied the city's radio stations, telegraph office, and the big, grey prefectura building, Capitol of the jungled, Arizona-size department of Loreto...
Robert Motherwell's Western Air is cubism smashed flat and with a couple of sky-holes poked through it. It demonstrates how abstract expressionism can make violent use of yesterday's art furniture. Arshile Gorky's Garden in Sochi uses Miro-like amoeba shapes to express an infant memory...
...first luxury is rising at 5 a.m. Tiny has poetic visions of a rosy-fingered dawn, but ". . . this is a real dawn. The sky is a bitter dirty gray color to which drops of orange blood are slowly added . . . Human life is at its lowest ebb. This is the time most people die." Tiny wants to live, even though she finds that she is a portable blood bank for the dread tsetse and squadrons of dive-bombing mosquitoes...