Word: soft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With Ayub's imposing victory, the government-controlled press began soft-pedaling the strident anti-Americanism that it had found a useful tool in the campaign. One top official, Ghulam Nabi Memon, blandly denied having made his widely published charge that the U.S. was financing the Jinnah campaign. After all, Ayub had now been elected to a five-year term, and he badly needed continued U.S. aid-which has totaled nearly $5 billion since...
...Soulages took a fancy to Louis XIII, and Manhattan Art Collector and Banker Robert Lehman uses it to accent his apartment. Dior's top designer, Marc Bohan, redecorated his apartment in the period. "I like things simple, austere even," he says. "It's my style. Also the soft, neutral colors of Louis Treize suit me." As different a type as Novelist James Jones also has decorated his Paris duplex with Louis XIII. "Yeah, I just like old medieval furniture," he says. He has turned a real pulpit into a bar and a prie-dieu into a barstool...
Genuine Scare. A few weeks ago, De Gaulle instructed Finance Minister Valery Giscard d'Estaing to strike the U.S. on its soft, golden underbelly. Giscard undertook the task with some pleasure: he was still smarting from his rebuff by U.S. and British moneymen at last fall's meeting of the International Monetary Fund in Tokyo, where he tried to get the IMF to adopt a new international currency based on gold that would favor the French. During last month's British money crisis he also got a genuine scare that both the pound and the dollar might...
...Sherbet-Soft Colors. The problem is that Louis and Noland are pioneer explorers who need vast spaces to give their quest a sense of achievement. Even the best tapestry would be ridiculous as a doily, and their Cinemascopic canvases only achieve their effect when they engulf the viewer's vision. Their works often run from baseboard to ceiling and as wide as 18 ft. This large format must impose itself like a looming display of northern lights to achieve a scale that inflames the imagination...
...abstract expressionists passed. In contrast to the abstract expressionists' frenzy of free-swinging brushstrokes, Morris Louis, who died suddenly two years ago at the age of 50, turned out paintings in which any trace of imagery or personality disappeared into cool, lush fields of color. With his sherbet-soft spectrum, Louis made floral-petal shapes and stripes like awnings that left yawning, bare canvas between them...