Word: talling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fall-like weather, its grapefruit trees, its trailers fancied up with everything from built-on rooms and porches to landscaped lawns. Sunday, it was Cleveland, as coolly respectable as Florida, and unexpectedly flamboyant; Monday, the lush, velvety valleys, red barns and wind-stroked corn fields of Wisconsin; Tuesday, the tall towers of Minneapolis, rising sharply from the prairie and gleaming in the warm sun; old, mellow St. Paul with its distinguished piles of Victorian brick and stone on Summit Avenue, where Scott Fitzgerald lived...
...most exciting finds in the past two decades is the 20-in.-tall statuette of the Mayan Rain God Chaac (see color), one of two discovered by a Carnegie Institution expedition in the ruined Yucatan city of Mayapan, and now on view at Mexico City's National Museum. Probably sculpted from clay in the 14th century, the prong-nosed Chaac is seen here in full regalia, with all his accouterments worked out in the full complexity of the Mayan style...
...Mayan works, writes Mexican Painter-Archaeologist Miguel Covarrubías, Mezcala objects are "highly stylized and schematic, and their coarse, vigorous character makes them readily identifiable" (see cut). Probably sculpted between 200 B.C.-800 A.D., surviving examples of Mezcala workmanship are small (many only 2-in. to 7-in. tall) and were made from the same hard stone used for chisels. But primitive as are the small masks, figures and votive animals, they pass the test of good sculpture. Even magnified in size, they keep their proportion and acquire a monumental gravity...
...even Texas tall talk can exaggerate the waterway's real importance. Enormous industries today stand bound together by a water highway carrying 41 million tons of freight some 7 billion ton-miles annually-more tonnage over a greater distance than either the Kiel or the Panama Canal. Touching every major Gulf port, it has helped boost New Orleans into the nation's No. 2 seaport, transformed Houston from an inland city into one of the busiest U.S. ports, handling $500 million worth of waterway cargo alone last year, including everything from autos to seashells. The waterway has also...
Because Miss Universe contest--could not be present for the final judging, she left a sealed ballot with her vote to be opened at the finals at the Leverett House Dance after the Ohio football game. Her vote proved the deciding one as tall, brunette Carol Corby of New York City won by one vote over blonde Deirdre Hubbard...