Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...study in the artful fusion of sparkling glass, glazed brick and gleaming metal, the long, low, U-shaped group faces a landscaped plaza decorated with colored fountains and lit by a splendid illuminating system. Into the passenger buildings are packed modern supermarket-like facilities to speed travelers on their way: escalators to carry passengers from floor to floor, 32 special customs check-out counters to which passengers wheel their luggage in marketlike pushcarts, enclosed arcades that enable passengers of each overseas flight to go through the port without getting mixed up with domestic passengers. Around the new terminal buildings will...
Since a Philippine Vice President's only constitutional assignment is to keep himself in splendid health, past Vice Presidents have always been given a Cabinet post-customarily Foreign Affairs. Having served as Second Secretary of his country's Washington embassy, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and head of the Philippines' U.N. delegation, Macapagal expects to be named Foreign Minister notwithstanding his Liberal label. In the past he has suspected Garcia of "passive leanings toward neutralism," but declared that Garcia's campaign speeches had allayed his fears, thinks the two of them will have...
Veils & Cadillacs. In other areas, there is uncomfortable compromise. Along the blazing coast of the Persian Gulf, in the oil-rich sheikdoms of Kuwait, Bahrein and Oman, are some of the most splendid private homes that imported U.S. and European architects can provide. Air conditioners purr in every room, doors slide open at the touch of a button. But the voice of the Prophet is still heard and obeyed throughout the land. When all the girls in a school in Kuwait rebelliously burned their shroudlike abas, the Sheik of Kuwait was shocked, made it a crime to appear in public...
...humorous aspects of premeditated murder are almost identical with those of custard-pie comedy: connoisseurs of both can enjoy the victim's splendid initial innocence, his growing disbelief and alarm, and, finally, his absurd response to the inexorable offices of fate. It takes a trained mind to really appreciate the drolleries of the rubout, however; when the gaudiest murder of the year was staged one morning last week in the barber shop of Manhattan's Park Sheraton Hotel, nobody in the U.S. was as well qualified to enjoy its subtleties as bulky, greying Albert Anastasia-onetime Lord High...
...side panel on an altar of a small church in the Ribes Valley, was painted (by an unknown artist) with all the suspense of a morality play acted out upon a stage. The good saint is seen in the act of weighing souls with the Devil, before a splendid red background decorated with gold stars. Michael has caught the Devil cheating by tipping the scales, and sadly points a shaming finger. Yet to be discovered is the lesser devil compounding the crime by tugging on the weight devil's tail. In an age of crusades and pilgrimages, when Christians...