Word: weltering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past 40 years, Giacometti has ground away at man in his gritty, plaster-spattered Montparnasse studio in Paris. His sooty potbellied stove still rusts away in a corner amid a welter of palette knives; the unpainted walls are covered with scribbly sketches, around which some ornate frames hang randomly like lustrous afterthoughts. This is his laboratory for capturing reality. To it come such models as his brother Diego, who makes furniture in bronze, and his wife Annette, to pose for motionless hours. For each session, they must return to the exact posture that Giacometti wishes; he ensures this by placing...
...Asia, India can rightfully claim to be the world's largest democracy-although it is in effect a one-party state, so dominant is the ruling Congress Party. But trying to impose a classic two-party system on the welter of Indian politics could only lead to total breakdown. Besides, other parties do freely exist, and within itself the Congress Party contains and balances off so many shades of opinion and interests that it is virtually a coalition government. One of the most serious dangers to Indian democracy is corruption in the civil service, essentially a symptom of economic...
Vicki Albright flew back to California yesterday, leaving behind her a welter of unpaid bills...
Second, among its welter of practitioners, two painters have emerged as the undisputed eye-catchers: Robert Rauschenberg, 38, (TIME, Sept.18), who made off with first honors last summer at the Venice Biennale, and Jasper Johns, 34, pop's most painterly painter (opposite...
...over the Bobby Baker scandal and the war in Viet Nam with platitudes about peace, prosperity and prudence. While Goldwater ranted about TVA, social security, the Supreme Court and conventional nuclear weapons, Johnson issued the soothing assurances of a benign protector who promised to save the nation from the welter of international chaos with the sure touch of sober responsibility...