Word: splash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...including a head of Sylvie Vartan (the French pop singer), a headless female nude (with movable arms and legs), a Negro head, Clark Kent's shirt being ripped open (by Clark Kent's hands), four tibias, twelve zeros, a vortex, a circular saw-blade, a fire, a splash of water, an esophagus, a stomach, an American eagle's head with a Russian babushka wrapped around it, and an unmade...
...promoting the low-priced ($2,073) Rambler-along with a separate $300,000 splash of ads plugging the company's size and zest-American was obviously trying to regain the image of its halcyon days. Back in the '50s, then-President George Romney captured most of the U.S. market for compacts with his hoots at larger models as "gas-guzzling dinosaurs." Though American followed along with other models (Ambassador, Marlin) when car buyers' taste returned to the larger size, and even stretched the length and breadth of some Ramblers, its share of U.S. auto sales steadily slipped...
...Harvard swim team will splash to its third straight effortless victory tonight against Brown...
...highly personal memorial to the Nazis' victims. Scored for bass-baritone, double chorus, orchestra and string quintet, the pace in all but one of the ten movements is slow to slower. To sustain interest within such a restrictive format, the score trades on subtlety rather than splash, deftly plays the wistful mewings of the string quintet against the dense harmonies of the orchestra, intertwines exquisite vocal patterns like a kaleidoscope turning in slow motion. Brilliantly performed, Requiem was distinctly modern but never abrasively atonal, a somber, moving prayer celebrating man and his God. For Josephs, 39, the success...
...night forests of Cavite is counterpointed by the rattle of gunfire as a cigarette-smuggling speedboat runs a customs blockade offshore. The big beat of jukeboxes in Manila's waterfront dives does not quite drown out the clink of cocktail glasses at the opulent Army-Navy Club. Manila newspapers splash crime news in Hechtian hyperbole across their front pages...