Word: umbrellas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after having been swamped by now discredited ex-Defense Minister Krishna Menon in last year's general election. Kripalani proposed to censure the government among other things, over official cor ruption, spiraling food prices and prohibitively high taxation. Though Kripalani is pro-Western, the censure proposal became an umbrella for all kinds of other Nehru critics, including leftists angered by Nehru's few tentative steps away from nonalignment...
...Spanish-born Felix Candela of Mexico is perhaps the most unassuming architect alive. About the closest he has ever come to immodesty is to say of his shell-like concrete structures and umbrella roofs that "this is the most functional architecture there is." His adopted country enthusiastically agrees. There are more than 325 buildings in the republic that are at least structurally designed either by Candela or by authorized agents of his firm. Probably 100 more have sprung up in the rest of Latin America, as well as in the U.S. and Britain. But of all of these, none...
Onto the screen came a sadly familiar figure. "That," said Rose, "is Mr. Chamberlain with his famous umbrella. It's so apt to rain over there; you should carry one of those plastic umbrellas with you when you go. Mr. Chamberlain's position was not understood in this country. He did the best he could under difficult circumstances...
Acquisitive Urge. Pagliai lives like the fiscal prince that he is. His showplace home in suburban Mexico City is a white brick Georgian mansion, graced with 14 live-in servants and 50 imported Italian umbrella cypresses planted in holes blasted into lava rock. Besides collecting pesos, he acquires Dresden figurines, Chinese jade, Venetian glass and ancient Spanish books that he often pores over until 2 a.m. His house also shelters Mexico's most distinguished selection of wines (7,000 bottles) and its finest private art collection-El Greco, Botticelli, Van Dyck, Dali, Diego Rivera-as well as Pagliai...
...book has none of these. The novel is built on the plan of the expanding universe or of one of those whirling platforms at amusement parks; the reader starts at the center, and, as the narration picks up speed, slides helplessly toward infinity, while his sanity and his umbrella drift away in different directions...