Word: skies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SWISS SKY RIDE charges a big 75? for a four-minute cable-car trip but sends the traveler soaring 115 ft. above Samoan fire dancers, Burundi drummers, Guatemalan marimba bands and Swiss yodelers...
...Imagine a painter wants to paint a rather simple, ordinary landscape, say some cherry trees in blossom with leaves and grass and sky and a couple of little clouds and, to balance the sky, maybe a basketball court, and playing on the court are several nuns and one of the nuns is wearing an ape suit with long red fur and spangles-forget that. Now, to get the color of the blossoms, does he go out into the orchard and rip from the tree the blossom and bring it back with him to his atelier...
Died. Peter Lanyon, 46, British abstract painter, who drew inspiration by soaring over his native Cornwall in a red glider, then came down to record his sensations in whirling masses of rust reds, lichen greens and salt whites that vigorously joined the rugged earth below and the dazzling sky above; of injuries sustained when his glider nosedived into a macadam airstrip in Somerset, England...
...Dragon Sky. Lady Luck, like most females, needs to feel needed. When Marcel Camus, a middle-aged Frenchman whose first movie had flopped, laid his last sou and two years of his life on the line for a far-out film about the slums of Rio de Janeiro, the lady smiled on every scene he shot-Black Orpheus is a cinemusical masterpiece. But when he lazily decided to remake the same movie in the slums and ruins of Cambodia, the lady gave him a sharp slap in the face-Dragon Sky is just an interesting failure...
...Rapport. Oceanfront stores do a roaring trade in mawkish mementos, such as "the J.F.K. Drinking Glass," a tumbler adorned with a sky-blue caricature of the late President, J.F.K. chocolate-filled gold coins (10?), and a posthumous J.F.K. prayer ("Special Delivery from Heaven," $2.95 gift-boxed). Other big-selling souvenirs include martini shakers cunningly shaped like bedpans, rubber and nylon "Golden Goddess Shrunken Heads," and a coffee-table plaque that reads: GOD BLESS THIS LOUSY APARTMENT. Vacationers stand in line for rococo delicacies ranging from frankfurters stewed in champagne (it says) to chocolate-covered frozen bananas...