Word: uniform
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Some of the narratives embedded in the triptychs are more straightforward than others. Beginning, 1946-49, is perhaps the most explicit of them all, a summing-up of childhood memory. The small boy in the nursery, dressed in a hussar's uniform and riding furiously on a rocking horse with drawn sword, is plainly Beckmann himself; a Puss-in-Boots hangs upside down from the ceiling; a languid carrot-haired odalisque on the sofa in the foreground blows iridescent soap bubbles of reverie and future desire; and a schoolmasterly figure holds up his hand in a gesture of censoriousness...
...launch Operation Mincemeat in 1943, the British commandeered the corpse of a man who had just died in England. They dressed him in a military uniform, stuffed his pockets with small change and the bogus personal papers of one Major Martin, and chained a briefcase to him that contained disinformation about Allied "plans" for a Balkans invasion--when the real target was Sicily. Then they set the body adrift near the Spanish coast. As expected, Spanish officials retrieved the body and passed the briefcase to Nazi agents. They read the plans and alerted their masters, who duly diverted their troops...
...world with all kinds of talents, interests and backgrounds. And truth be told, if you are white, rich, from Massachusetts and going to private school, you represent ever thing that Mr. Hicks and Harvard are trying to minimize in their admissions -- the last thing they want is a uniform student body of "Muffys and Buffys," wearing pink sweaters tied around their waists, waiting for their daddies to take them to the club. That image is as taboo today as the multiculturalism image was in the early 1950s...
After spending a weekend with his father in Los Angeles, a 10-year-old boy with divorced parents is returned to his mother's house in El Monte, a valley town a short bus ride to the east. Men in uniform tell him his mother was murdered early that morning. The son shows no emotion to the officers but breaks down on the bus ride back with his father: "I cried. I cranked tears out all the way to L.A. I hated her. I hated El Monte. Some unknown killer just bought me a brand-new beautiful life...
...woman repeated her directions and only then did she notice his uniform...