Word: toot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Devil's Footboard. That their youngest son took up art was reason for sackcloth and ashes at the Aronson home. His first one-man show drew a drubbing from the Jewish Daily Forward's art critic. Another critic called his seven-toot-long Last Supper, with its disciples writhing as if from indigestion, "a suitable footboard for the devil's bed." Recently a patriarch of the ultraorthodox Hasidim sect paid a visit to Aronson's studio and saw only apostasy. The patriarch's son, a bearded Hasidic rabbi last week came for a second despairing...
Such is the one-party "guided democracy" that has evolved in Mexico since the Revolution of 1910, and it seems to suit the country well. The choice of a new President is as ritualistic as a papal succession. Under the rules, a candidate cannot toot his own trumpet; he must never give the slightest inkling that presidential ambitions have entered his modest head. Instead, his friends quietly start the bandwagon rolling and set about persuading the party powers that their man is ready for the No. 1 spot. The leaders of the P.R.I.'s trade-union wing, the peasant...
...ruddy, puffy Pan whose brown hair is ungreyed at 54. He is a self-taught artist and a loner among modern artists. He lives like a loner-staying barely long enough in any one London flat to litter it and leave. Last week, having just ended a four-month toot, Bacon was back at his easel in a South Kensington mews flat that has been home for a scant fortnight. At the same time, 65 of his oils went on exhibit in Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum. It was the largest one-man show in the U.S. for a living...
Meanwhile, the Times has fallen back on its old unpredictable ways. Its new character is best illustrated by a piece written by Ben Reddick himself. "Today is today," he trumpeted. "Progress is wonderful. Toot! Toot...
Many of the Cowles-recruited staffers who have not already fled are frantically looking for jobs. They don't give even one toot...