Word: squatting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...guys ever praise anybody or anything without running down somebody else? This time, via the Lombardi story, you overinflate football by the glib expedient of deflating basketball, tennis, hockey, boxing and baseball. Talk about a slow-motion bore: huddle, slap, squat, shift, squat, pass, incomplete, whistle, penalty, time out, substitution, huddle, slap, squat, shift, squat, pass, incomplete, whistle, penalty, substitution, huddle, slap, squat, shift, pass, fumble, gun, final score: 0-0-and the fans could be all the way to Chicago by jet, and return...
...saboteur can reach the control officers. They descend into their green-walled capsule by elevator or steel ladder, are protected by steel doors 3 ft. thick. Atop the control center sits a squat building with three security guards. Around the building is an electronically guarded fence. "God help the man that tries to get in," says one project officer...
...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...