Word: umbrellas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Personable President Sukarno was presiding at a meeting of his Supreme Advisory Council, only a few hundred feet from the palace. When the firing ceased, Sukarno paused only to grab a long-handled black umbrella and then raced across the palace lawn, was relieved to find that his seven children had not yet come home from school...
...Dine's The Magic Room is a shocking-pink and green affair with bedsprings hanging from the ceiling and an umbrella protruding from the wall, with cardboard signs reading, "Breakfast Is Ready," "Go to Work," and "Why Can't We Be Friends?" Dine calls these "phrases you hear around any household. I wanted to show the violence of a home...
...Socialist Party, and the friendships have endured. Graduating in the cherry blossom season of 1920, the newly married Kishi became a civil servant in the Ministry of Commerce and for the next 16 years was indistinguishable from thousands of other bureaucrats. Clutching his newspaper and a black umbrella, he commuted between his modest home in suburban Shinjuku and a governmental beehive in Tokyo's busy Kasumigaseki district. Though he looked and acted like all the others, his quick wit and swift grasp of facts and situations won him a new nickname: "The Razor...