Word: vane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Scandinavia. A Mr. Fung of Hong Kong wanted one with a 32-inch waist. A dealer in Italy asked for 150 of them and in Kuwait, Renwick's agent reports that a few sheiks are interested in his wares. "I'd much rather make a weather vane or a fat cow than reproduce something as inherently horrid as a chastity belt," Renwick insists. But he keeps forging ahead -at $60 a belt...
Beginning in 1957, larger, heavier and subtly more ominous forms intrude. The 7-ft.-high "Sentinels" are towers of chunky I-beams or weather-vane slabs. Smith set some on little wheels, explaining that he had gotten .the idea from Hindu temple chariots. He always prided himself on his sheer physical energy, as if he were clinging to his image of himself as some machine-age peasant with industrial muscles. Invited to contribute to Italy's Spoleto festival in 1962, Smith stunned nearly everyone by producing 26 works in less than a month and studded the Spoleto amphitheater with...
Occasionally Nabokov plays games, as in the acrostic in "The Vane Sisters," but basically he eludes explication and literary criticism. He is a magician who gets us to watch the rabbit, not the false bottom of his hat. His style illuminates, it does not blind. In his autobiography, Speak, Memory, part of which is included in the present volume, he writes...
...political weather vane for the national election, the Wisconsin primary--pioneered by Gov. Robert La-Follette in 1903 as the first in the nation--has failed to bend even to popular hurricanes. In 1932, Wisconsin Democrats went for Al Smith, the rest of the nation for Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1952, state Republicans chose Robert A. Taft, while everyone else liked Gen. Dwight Eisenhower...
Saint-Gaudens added a flowing cloak of copper sheets, so she could act as a wind vane as well, and up she went on the Garden tower, to twirl on a swivel before the prevailing breeze. New York fell in love at first sight. She became the protectress of the cat show, the horse show, the sportsmen's show, the prizefights and circuses. Around 1905, a severe storm ripped away her cloak; from then on she was bolted securely down. She presided over William Jennings Bryan's nomination for President, saw Jack Dempsey knock out Bill Brennan...