Word: squatting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This week Manhattan's Alan Gallery opens a show of Brice's latest work. The paintings are mostly of a male and female nude placed in a landscape setting. The nudes are animal as well as human-they squat, crouch, clutch at each other, embrace-and their color has as much to do with earth as with flesh. The animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms seem to merge, and in the best of the works the merger is striking...
Leverett, Kirkland, Lowell, and Eliot had the new machines, which have been tested in Winthrop House since the beginning of the year. The dispenser is a squat stainless steel box, worth about...
...Affaires Nathaniel Welbeck, trying to get at the charge and make him fly out of the country. Watching the scene, Griggs and two other reporters were grabbed by a Congolese plainclothesman befuddled by bangi (raw marijuana). They were under arrest, he said, as Communist spies. Griggs was ordered to squat on a lawn directly across the street from the Ghanaian embassy. Five feet away a pair of Congolese soldiers lay prone, their rifles cocked and aimed at Griggs's head, with orders to shoot if firing broke out across the street. After an hour, word of Griggs...
...mouths, hang their heads and look downward without answering." This practice is considered a delicate expression of maidenly modesty by the Japanese, but a Westerner might "suspect he is being teased." Finally, "a lady should always be careful to keep her knees together when sitting. A lady should never squat...
Elegant & Expensive. Some of the merchandise is elegant and expensive. London Silversmith Gerald Benney, designer of the ciborium for Coventry's new cathedral, offers a squat, modern tea service for $1,080. Harry Hall Ltd., outfitters for sportsmen, has the latest foxhunting outfit for men, including riding whip, for $163. But many items are both stylish and moderately priced. For example, Wedgwood sells a five-piece setting of bone china...