Word: smokings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...canvas completed at the culmination of the cycle in 1950. Why it is called Excavation is a mystery that remains with De Kooning. In fact, it resembles little except perhaps a crackling bonfire, where visions of possible nymphs and improbable satyrs gyre in the obscuring smoke. But it delves profoundly into method, its seething forms eluding both definition and restriction. Exhibited at the Venice Biennale later in 1950, along with works by Jackson Pollock and Arshile Gorky, it helped to establish Abstract Expressionism as the major art of its time. And it may have marked the occasion when Manhattan displaced...
...character,' " Waterhouse writes. "In the early days of their marriage he had urged her to wear trousers about the house and had given her her nickname, Poodle, in the hope of investing her with some quality of whimsicality. He had tried to persuade her to smoke cheroots...
...Guard. Danang, the country's second largest city and the coastal hub of northernmost I Corps, suffered greater damage. Rockets and mortar rounds poured into the city as well as into surrounding military installations. Chain explosions rocked an ammunition dump, setting huge fires raging and pumping black smoke high into the sky. A Marine hangar at the airfield was damaged. Incoming rounds hit a bare 200 yards from the headquarters of the Third Marine Amphibious Force, damaging the naval support headquarters just across the Danang River...
Plea in Question. Already on the spot were the airport's unarmed Swiss firemen, alerted by the tower, which spotted smoke from the grenades. One terrorist threw away his gun, and a fireman took a second gun away from another. Plunging toward the milling group, Rahamim fired three shots at close range, killing one of the Arabs, Abdel Moshen Hassan, a 32-year-old Jordanian. The police then took into custody his three companions, including one woman, a 22-year-old schoolteacher named Amena Dahbor. All three claimed to be Palestinian...
...were generally quite hostile to ROTC," said Martin H. Peretz, assistant professor of Social Studies. Ken Glazier, the retiring chairman of SFAC, remarked over the weekend that "the SFAC resolution didn't ask Pusey to go crawling around asking ROTC to stay." And HUC's Steve Kaplan detected "a smoke screen between Massachusetts Hall and the University which is not healthy...