Word: starter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with Ermine. The dinner was pleasant enough, but it was just a starter. Afterward, everybody got into limousines again, bound for an art show at Manhattan's Asia House, to which Jackie and Galbraith had each lent some of their North Indian paintings. After a 45-minute tour of the exhibit, the group was off to the Sign of the Dove, a Third Avenue restaurant that Jackie and her friends had taken over for the evening and turned into a discothèque decorated with life-sized photographs of Galbraith, who is 6 ft. 8 in. tall. Someone nicknamed...
Diamond, a doubtful starter because of a shoulder injury, played the whole way for the offense except for the last three plays, as did the rest of the line. Noback looked...
What Norway's old people wanted to know was whether the new regime meant the ax for the traditional welfare program. No fear. The suddenly successful coalition promised to lower taxes by slashing huge food and housing subsidies and to curb inflation, probably, as a starter, by boosting the low lending rates of the state-owned banks. But it did not dare to suggest dismantling the structure of basic welfare benefits. As a matter of fact, listening to Liberal Leader Bent Roiseland, 63, the likely choice for Premier, one wondered why he ever bothered to run as an antisocialist...
Burri, 50, is a late starter who began making art while detained as an Italian army doctor in a U.S. prisoner-of-war camp. He stood eminently in line for his medal, since he had won minor prizes at the Carnegie International in 1958 and the Venice Biennale in 1960. One of the many European art brut abstractionists who explored the beauties of raw texture after World War II, Burri makes a sort of mad Braille with collages of blistered burlap (called sacco), charred wood (combustioni), and lately, slashed and melted sheets of colored plastic. How to make an esthetic...
...Late Starter. An international jury of 21 picked the prizewinners, although it could not wait until the U.S. entries (delayed by dock strikes) were uncrated. The U.S. entrants, a rather pallid and particular group of seven "cool" hard-and soft-edge abstractionists, were conceded to be out of the race anyway, since Americans won both the last São Paulo and Venice biennials. The Grande Prémio (a gold medal, shorn by poverty of its usual cash bonus) was split between Italy's Alberto Burri and France's Victor Vasarely...