Word: warmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Partly because of Viet Nam, Russian diplomats long described their dealings with the U.S. as "frozen." The Paris peace talks helped to warm things up a few degrees. Soviet military intervention in Czechoslovakia would once again seriously chill the diplomatic atmosphere. It was Russian tanks in Budapest, in fact, that abruptly froze a momentary thaw in 1956. The difficult balance between deep-freeze and detente can be frustrating, says Harlan Cleveland, U.S. Ambassador to NATO, since it offers none of "the clarities of either unambiguous war or unalloyed peace." But, troubling as the ambiguities of Honolulu and Prague...
BRRRR! Reaching out to touch the frost-encrusted Ice Stick by Hans Haacke at the Milwaukee Art Center last week, visitors were expected to chill their fingers. All of the "Do Not Touch" signs in the gallery had been removed. OUCH! Gallerygoers could warm their fingers on three electrified aluminum columns that Sculptor John Goodyear calls Heat Sequence. And they could sit upon and be jiggled about by Royce Dendler's mechanized box titled Vibrate. By pressing buttons, they could activate David Jacobs' siren and two aluminum-and-rubber resonators, entitled collectively Mother's Mechanical Wonderful...
Sylvia agreed that the weather was humid and warm but she insisted she did not care. In fact, she said firmly, "That was the best mixer I have been to since Brotherhood Week when the Baptist Church decided to hold their annual dance in the Synagogue...
...events make Wall Street squirm as much as a public investigation of its affairs. Last week, as the Securities and Exchange Commission opened a wide-ranging inquiry into the fees charged to stock investors, it began to look like a warm-under-the-collar summer for the New York and American Stock Exchanges. For the first time since such rates were devised in 1792, the markets must publicly defend a system of minimum commissions that the SEC contends is capricious and unfair...
...wife Carolyn is also a lawyer, specializing in taxes. A warm, vibrant woman with a touch of the feminist?she smokes cigars, insists on using her maiden name, Carolyn Agger, and tools around in her own Rolls-Royce?she seems devoted to her celebrated husband. With no children, the Fortases find ample time for recreation as well as cerebration. During the winter they ski; during the summer they swim. They summer in Westport, Conn., and their permanent home in Georgetown has a swimming pool boasting a bubble top for year-round...