Word: wind
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rillat, who had started first and zipped down the 1.8-mile course in 1 min. 59.93 sec. "I knew Périllat's time," Jean-Claude said afterward. "I figured I had the race in hand." He did. His body tucked low to cut down wind resistance, he was a blur in blue as he slashed through the turns and flashed down the long schuss at something like 70 m.p.h. Crossing the finish line, he slammed to a stop and looked up at the timing board. The figures read: 1 min. 59.85 sec.-a victory for Killy by 8/100...
Untrammeled Spirit. Wyeth returned to paint Christina Olson many times, cradling a kitten in her arms, or sitting on her porch. He painted her house 50 times, and an upstairs room in it in Wind from the Sea, which shows the curtains billowing as Wyeth once saw them, when a long-closed window was suddenly thrown open. His last portrait, titled Anna Christina, was completed last summer...
...Wind-Whipped Icicle. Among the recognized leaders is Los Angeles' Larry Bell, 28, who began evolving his coolly opalescent glass boxes five years ago after an early career in painting evoked "a gnawing frustration with two-dimensional form." To portray light and color in a Platonically pure and idealized fashion, he began painting glass cubes with abstract designs, found that the paler his colors became, the more easily spectators were able to ignore his boxes as objects, enjoy them instead for what they did to light. The technology behind Bell's boxes is highly sophisticated, but he dismisses...
...Bloomingdale's Interior Design Chief David Bell, will be increasingly used to make small apartment rooms appear bigger through trompe-l'oeil. At the moment, the most popular style of furniture, at least in the mass market, is Early American, but a change may be in the wind. "With the 1930s being revived in fashion," says Dabbie Daniels, a senior decorator at Manhattan's W & J Sloane, the nation's oldest home furnishing house, "I think we will see 1930s rooms with lots of white and silver and mirrors-very Jean Harlow, very much the platinum...
...could mistake the murderers, young Myra Hindley and Ian Brady, for Bonnie and Clyde; as rendered by Author Williams, they are closer to Jekyll and Hyde, complete with Victorian-melodrama makeup. Ian, 25, is the main figure, but wind him as he will, Williams cannot bring his manic mannequin to life...