Word: somber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...raised, hooves beating and gun carriages thundering behind - is so intricate and dangerous that it is rarely used even for visiting royalty. Last week Queen Elizabeth, who had never seen the ceremony herself, ordered it performed to mark the state visit of Saudi Arabia's King Feisal, the somber and bearded monarch who has emerged as leader of the moderate forces op posing the pan-Arabism of Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser...
Back home in Barcelona after his first unsuccessful foray on Paris, Pablo Picasso in 1902 painted a somber, Blue Period portrait of a woman, barefoot, with child in arms and holding a single bright red flower. At Sotheby's auction house last week, Picasso's down-and-out souvenir, Mother and Child by the Sea, brought the highest price ever paid for a work by a living artist: $532,000, more than double the previous record, also held by Picasso, whose Death of Harlequin sold...
...midnight the three will host dancing in the Freshman Union to the "vibrating soul of the Chambers Brothers and the groovin' sound of the Outsiders." The inspired blues of the Brothers alternating with the "Time Won't Let Me" sound of the Outsiders promises to set the somber Union ringing...
Cities all over Israel last week looked like the setting for a horror movie. In B'nai Brak, near Tel Aviv, 20,000 demonstrators in somber black coats and black hats paraded with banners proclaiming: "Don't cut us up." Posters inside synagogues in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa explained how to prevent hospital attendants from spiriting away the dead: "Stay beside the body every moment." Splashed in white paint across the road near Jerusalem's Hadassah Medical Center was the warning: "Barbaric autopsies must stop...
...business. Brazil's biggest and fastest growing city (pop. 6,000,000), it has 25,000 industrial enterprises that account for 30% of Brazil's total production. Sao Paulo considers itself the Brazilian Wall Street, and Paulistas act and dress accordingly, favoring dark suits and somber miens for all occasions. When he is not at one of the city's 500 sports clubs, Sao Paulo's favorite recreation, the Paulista will usually be in his car fighting Latin America's worst traffic jam (416,000 vehicles on the road). He can also pick from...