Word: tucks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NEVER GO HOME ANYMORE (Red Bird). The Shangri-Las teach a stern object lesson. The girl ran away with the boy, but all she could think about was how her mother used to tuck her in at night. Meanwhile Mother sickened and died. The Shangri-Las' advice: Kiss your mom and tell her you love...
...what one sees in nature. But the retina of modern man is deluged with a thousand images that are themselves manmade, not the least of which flash from the television screen. To be true to reality means to include such images; so what is more logical than to tuck a TV screen into a painting. Or at least so thinks Tom Wesselmann, 34, who fiddles with the girl who doesn't exist, the supersex symbol, the Great American Nude, and sets her in homey seraglio scenes decorated with real radiators. Lift the Venetian blind, and there is a calendar...
...Rubber Corp., which had manufactured the car's tires. Against G.M., they made two charges: that the Corvair's doors and door handles were too weak to withstand the pressure of a rollover, and that because of a poorly designed rear axle, the rear wheels tended to tuck in and lose all traction in a swerve...
Even in paperback, the Alexandria Quartet, Anthony Powell's The Music of Time series, Gide's Journals and all of C. P. Snow are apt to stir poolside suspicion. Anyone who takes his summer reading seriously must weather such risks-or else tuck his Doctor Zhivago inside Doctor No. The lowbrow in search of status will reverse the process and hide Sexus under, say, Koestler's The Act of Creation. The camouflage problem is more complicated for the compulsive careerist, who always gets "some good new books" before he leaves on vacation. But how can he bury...
...directed against Supreme Court involvement in the reaportionment issue, the Dirksen-Mansfield amendment--note the participation of bipartisan leadership in this conservative measure--had been added as a rider to the foreign aid bill and seemed sure of passage. Since the House had already passed the much more extreme Tuck amendment virtually anything passed by the Senate would have become law. Yet, the amendment was defeated, miraculously, by successful liberal use of that old shibboleth, the filibuster...