Word: squatness
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...nature as made up of a limited number of "essential shapes," and these are the subject of his paintings. He favors the rounded, horizontal shapes, so that a man's head takes on the look, not of an egg, but of a mushroom. "This makes my figures as squat as in the pre-Columbian art that I love." But figures rarely appear in his work at the Landry: his paintings have become "essential surfaces" in which he tries "to penetrate the primeval aspect of matter." Shells, corals, bones, bulbs-all fascinate him. So do his microscopic studies of bits...
...even the smaller cities are immune. Johet, Ill., for example, has a folk cave appropriately called The Know Where Fort Wayne, Ind., has a place called The fourth Shadow where people squat on the Hoor and sip espresso by candlelight over doors that have been made into tables Strings are jumping at The Jolly Coachman in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Incredibly Omaha, just across the river from Council Bluffs, has two places. The Third Man and The Crooked Ear where queues sometimes run to a hundred head, and the varied clientele-as in all cities-not only have beards, berets...
...than anyone he had ever run against, declared the winner absolutely unqualified to hold public office. He also vowed that he would hunt for evidence of fraud in Rhodes's auditorship until the very day in January when Republicans would finally dispossess him of his office in the squat, ugly capitol building in Columbus. In fact, Mike Di Salle should have remained a jolly...
...diversify into milling and manufacturing. Since Hirsch's death in 1956, the domain has been run by a cosmopolitan band of second-generation Argentines of German, French and Dutch ancestry. At the top of the ladder are tall, soldierly President Jorge Born, 62, son of the cofounder, and squat Vice President Mario Hirsch, 51, son of Don Alfredo...
...only a matter of time before Krobo ("Crowbar") Edusei, 46, returned to President Kwame Nkrumah's Cabinet; he has all the qualifications. A squat, bombastic bully from Ashanti, Edusei was Nkrumah's eminence noire in the Cabinet until last April, when he was finally tossed out during one of Nkrumah's brief experiments in making his colleagues practice what he preaches...