Word: wheelings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...explained. "I transmit." While his greatest contemporaries wanted to shed the past, Derain wanted to bring the Western tradition up to date. While Leonardo or an Ingres would paint a ball as round or oval, he said, Picasso or Leger would "turn it into a guitar, a bicycle wheel, a pre-Columbian monster. The handwriting has replaced style. It has devoured the ball...
...wheel of fashion, as it does for the clothes displayed, turns also for models, though more slowly. The cool all-American beauties (Sunny Harnett, Jean Patchett, Betsy Pickering) of the '50s are still around; but today a new set of faces dominates the glossy pages of the fashion magazines. Curiously enough, most of the new crop came to New York from Germany, France, China and Italy (many of today's top models speak as many as three languages), and in the space of less than two years have risen to command a field until now considered almost...
Last year, however, the Yale Spoke and Wheel Society and the Harvard satisfactory site for the race. They could not convince Cambridge authorities to let them use the Yard or the Common, and they had to settle for a piece of lawn near the field house. As a result, the race was a dismal failure. In fact, only 50 people were able to locate...
...image of Fate in the forest, a ghost-pale crone who sits like a Norn at her spinning wheel, spinning the thread of life and croaking prophecies that fly out of her tomb-dark throat like bats...
...that Texans keep alive, says Bainbridge, is the cheapness of life. More people are killed in Texas traffic accidents than in any other state except California, which has about 40% higher population. Perhaps, Bainbridge suggests, it's all the result of the old pioneer spirit. "Texans behind the wheel tend to excel by far all other Americans in aggressiveness, perhaps in this respect outclassing even the Germans. Courtesy can be expected on the splendid Texas highway system only from the lily-livered...