Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grey stucco building carrying luggage and huge bundles of documents. Then Peking's Ambassador Liu Yu-feng and his wife glumly entered a black Mercedes for the trip to the airport, where an Ethiopian Airways DC-6 stood waiting. The airport porters were most emphatically ordered not to touch so much as a suitcase handle as the Chinese loaded their 21 tons of luggage aboard the waiting plane. Thus, in less than an hour, did Red China abandon its most successful forward base for subversion in black Africa...
...only once. At one point they transferred to the silken cab of a green and scarlet imperial coach pulled by a team of six Lippizaner horses. They dined on lamb, watt (Ethiopia's excellent meat and vegetable stew), tedj-a honey-based mead-and Taitinger champagne. The imperial touch was also present when Elizabeth journeyed over the dusty plain to Asmara, where she was greeted by dancing spearsmen and was delightfully dive-bombed by an Ethiopian army plane. The bomb load was flower petals...
Abstract Lenses. The magnificent Gothic cathedrals, Kidder Smith points out, "were designed for a fearsomely omnipotent deity, a procession-laden liturgy and a priestly autocracy, which certainly does not answer the problems of today's ethos." New churches must touch the individual in a modern, more personal way; their stained glass can no longer be a luminous Bible full of a panoply of cartoon parables for the illiterate. Says Loire: "The glass should not be a distraction, but it should aid people to enter into themselves...
...readymade" work of art, and whimsically called it In Advance of a Broken Arm. He filled a bird cage with marble sugar lumps and titled it Why Not Sneeze. He made viewers dizzy with swirling patterns driven by electric motors, shocked gallerygoers with a foam-rubber breast labeled Please Touch, brought critics up short by stating that his grand design, The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even, on which he worked from 1915 to 1923, was intentionally left unfinished. Then, in 1923, in his grandest gesture of all, he announced that he was abandoning art for a worthier occupation...
...supple mind and ingenious fancy; he is also the unobtrusive master of a wide-eyed, self-deprecatory style that again and again sweet-talks the reader, step by reasonable step, right to the brink of the preposterous^and then tumbles him into laughter. He does it with a loving touch that leaves no bitter aftertaste: the Ordways come up smiling...