Word: specter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expansive ground floor of Paris' Musée National d'Art Moderne looked like a specter-haunted landscape from Mars. Birdmen, ten inches tall, made up of a human thorax, bare-boned ribs and a spinal column topped by oversized beak and reptilian eyes, stared back at the spectators. A human-size Praying Mantis in female form crouched ready to spring; a Shepherd with half-decayed body tottering on three spindle legs looked more like an abandoned sheep carcass than a human figure. The reason for this nightmare in Paris last week: 82 pieces finished in the last...
...schedules, switching from diesels to steam engines. Gasoline deliveries are down 20%, and the booming French Riviera tourist resorts are crying disaster; within a few days of the first gasoline restrictions, hotel occupancy dropped as much as 75% below normal. In Denmark and Spain there is also the glum specter of rationing, with fuel supplies down as much as 25%; Sweden and Switzerland have already banned pleasure driving on weekends...
...gain surface richness. What remains the same is Tamayo's distinctive approach, which can assault the senses with all the fury of a maddened cat, shift to grotesque satire, or acquire the quality of jagged hallucination as in his Phantasma (see cut') which depicts a phosphorescent feminine specter who seems perched uninvited on the window ledge. Closed in Mexico City last week. Tamayo's triumphant show will be seen next month at Manhattan's Knoedler Galleries...
Wall Street's professionals were full of theories, laid the decline to a combination of the Suez Canal crisis, tight money, technical factors in the market and a sudden spate of stories touting Democratic chances in November. Some market .analysts raised the specter of a bear market, but most of the pros said no. Said Benton & Co.'s Albert Tompane, a leading U.S. Steel stock specialist: "Money has been tight all summer. People haven't got excess funds. The bull market is leveling off, but we're not in a bear market, and the economy...
...general political analysis presented by the specter of Dulles' stolidity and Nixon's serpentine behavior, Eisenhower, despite his illness, appears a most creative leader. This appears in his proposals for the segregation problem--moderate, but forceful, action and the establishment of bi-racial commissions. Eisenhower's stands, both foreign and domestic (with the exception of the farm bill), have been forthright and sensible. In light of his own worth and the incompetence of his immediate subordinates, the President's recurring illness is most distressing to a comparatively leaderless nation...