Word: tugged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suspicion that anything can happen-perhaps even passion. In this welter of the current art world, it is still possible to say, or sense, that some things are good, some bad. There is the almost haunting fact that one metal glob or set of blinking lights will somehow tug at the imagination, while another will not. That Savarin coffee can full of paint brushes, which is in the Museum of Modern Art at the moment, is a visual bore. But Rauschenberg's goat with a tire around it is somehow amusing. Kienholz's latest exhibit, an abortionist...
...time at the Texas ranch while the President was conferring in the dining room with Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg, whom he had just named Ambassador to the United Nations. For 40 frustrating minutes Hurd watched L.B.J. get up from his chair, sit down, get up, pace the floor, tug at his ear, rub his nose, wipe his brow-in short, do everything but sit for his portrait...
...still mysterious for a long time. To this day we know little about the post-Stalinist power struggle in Russia; the upheaval in China should be as difficult to straighten out. To the beast of our knowledge this week's conflict is at least partially the result of a tug of war between provincial and national leaders in China, a tug of war in which the two teams temporarily have lost patience, dropped the rope, and rushed each other...
...McGeath, a clerk in Dallas' big new Sanger-Harris department store, was trimming a display Christmas tree one afternoon when she felt a tug on her skirt. "Lady," said a four-year-old boy, his tiny face knotted with perplexity, "Lady, it's not even Halloween yet." It wasn't, either. Sanger-Harris, together with many other U.S. depart ment stores, installed its early-bird Christmas Shop in October this year, replete with cards, creches, plastic Christmas trees, tinsel and wrappings. The U.S. shopper is not imagining things. Christmas does come a little earlier each year...
...officers of U.S.S. Safeguard (ARS-25) noted with much interest your story, "The Skunk Watchers" [Oct. 14]. As Safeguard is a sister ship to the U.S.S. Conserver (ARS-39), we found to our amazement that our relative is a "rust-pitted, rickety tug" that apparently is doing well to stay afloat, let alone actually operate...