Word: strainingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trying to paint the life force of a thing," says Australian-born Brett Whiteley. "There has always been a sense of violence in my work." There has also been a strong strain of sensuality. Three years ago, at the age of 25, Whiteley established himself in the vanguard of young London painters (TIME, Oct. 9, 1964) with one Baconesque series of 25 paintings, all showing his pretty young wife nude in the bath, plus another series depicting the passionate antics of Sex Murderer John Christie. His latest show at Marlborough New London Gallery is difficult to characterize. Is it expressionist...
...President Nikolai Podgorny came a 31-ft. porcelain vase, from Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba a solid gold olive tree and from Kuwait's Emir Sabah as Salem as Sabah two black Arabian stallions. President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines sent a packet of seeds of a new strain of rice that, if it finds the right soil, can increase yields tenfold. The gifts and the illustrious names of their senders were well suited to the occasion. Iran last week celebrated the biggest public event of its recent history: the coronation, on his 48th birthday, of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi...
Arcane Alchemy. Nothing is forced in her performance. Strain only shows offstage, when she takes long rests, sits in her dressing room in a wheelchair to ease the pain of a crushed disk in her back, and dismisses visitors with the sigh, "I must do my breathing now." Since pneumonia damaged her lungs in 1961, she has had to inflate them several times a day with a pressurized oxygen tank that accompanies her everywhere (she calls it "Charlie...
...food" being served. I think that he would find much more to criticize if he submitted himself to a grueling week of Central Kitchen delicacies served by the automatons he wishes to substitute for our friendly serving ladies. He also would probably by now be complaining of the muscle strain and charlie-horse he had sustained from jumping up and down for the seconds, thirds, and fourths required to keep him at the subsistence level...
Ford was showing signs of strain. Having lost production of some 228,000 cars thus far, its dealers have fewer than 140,000 on hand, barely a third of them '68s. With the flow of U.S.made parts ended, its Canadian operations have all but stopped...