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Even abstract expressionists themselves have been rediscovering Velásquez. Perhaps the cold, snowy veil that abstraction has cast over almost the whole landscape of art has proved too chill, and they felt the need for a thaw, for seeing earth again. Both Dali and Picasso were trying to bring Velásquez's illusion-making genius into a new, dreamlike focus, distorting the original (as dreams do) by a breaking-up and jumbling-together process. Dali calls this "disassociation." Says Dali: "The impressionists made disassociation of light. The cubists made disassociation of forms. The surrealists made disassociation...
...stewardesses' union: ''They say you get frumpy and frowzy. Humph! You haven't lost the romance of life when you get to be 32." The stewardesses also protested a management ban on ski pants. Complained Noni Myers: "They want us to have just this thin veil of nylon between us and the elements at 40 to 60 below zero...
Ever since Dictator Mustafa Kemal Ataturk overturned and reformed the Islamic rigidities of the Ottoman Empire in 1924, Turkish women by the thousands have come out from behind the veil, taken up short skirts and modern ideas. Polygamy was outlawed. But in Istanbul last week there sounded a still, small voice from the past. Lawyer Osman Nuri Lermioglu, a Democratic Deputy from Trabzon on the Black Sea, presented Parliament with a draft bill that would allow a Turk legally to have two wives, but only if the first wife were ill or sterile. To prove that he was no Terrible...
...blessings of having many children, the Pope added: "No sooner are the happy pilgrimages to the baptismal font ended than the bright series of first communions and confirmations begins, and when the smallest brother puts away his first-communion suit, out comes the family's first nuptial veil, bringing together before the altar the parents, all the children, and the delight of new in-laws...
Though it was clear that some of he rhapsodic writing in Married Love temmed from the author's fantasies, it ,lso contained a lot of down-to-earth ommon sense. The marriage bed, its uthor proclaimed, was for pleasure as veil as procreation. The wife can and hould be a full partner, allowed to take he initiative and to enjoy fulfillment, way with the Victorian idea that a nice" woman should be the passive, un complaining object of her husband's bestial libidinous urges...