Word: splash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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hard edge is the phrase for painters who prefer a defined line to splatter and splash. But it's still abstract...
...away), it is as expansive as its owner, filled with a fastidious clutter of collections (sea shells, rare bits of glass and silver, tortoise-shell snuffboxes), stamped throughout with the special insignia of the impeccable Vreeland taste. Perfume is everywhere, and, for Deeann, flowers are the basic ingredient. They splash in 18 varieties, out of vases, off the wallpaper and sheets, all over her bedroom...
...Andrea Doria disaster in 1956, it came back by building the Cristojoro Colombo and the Leonardo da Vinci in the 19505, six months ago launched the Michelangelo, a 43,000-ton superliner for the North Atlantic run. Last week, to the crash of band music and the splash of spumante, Michelangelo's twin, Raffaello, slid down the ways at Trieste. When the two ships go to work next year, replacing the prewar Saturnia and Vulcania, they will be the fastest liners on the New York-Mediterranean run, cutting the voyage to Naples from eight to seven days...
...Galvin never really got down to details about his fortune, estimated at $150 million. He moved to suburban Woodside in 1955, proceeded to splash about in the social life there. He made quite a hit at first-entertaining lavishly on his estate, allowing the horsy set of Woodside to canter over his acres. He gave $50,000 to build an indoor riding ring at Stanford University in nearby Palo Alto. Even when the university turned down a daughter for admission, Galvin let the contribution stand...
Marshalls make less splash than what one Marshall calls "big, strapping, celibate Rhodes scholars." But in many ways their lives are richer. "I've seen a great deal of England that most Rhodes scholars never see," says Paul Cable, now studying political science at the University of Manchester. "Up here it isn't all flowing academic gowns, green lawns and sherry parties." Says Dallas Holmes, now at the London School of Economics: "I came from Southern California with very right-wing opinions. I haven't turned Socialist, but I see that British doctors don't have...