Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...individuals but to the tribe, and the tribal councils, with approval of the U.S. Government, have taken a firm grip on the purse strings. Last week, as the 74-member Navajo council pored over the $12 million fiscal-1958 budget at the tribe's octagonal headquarters in Window Rock, Ariz., a Federal Indian Affairs Bureau official remarked: "They're looking over each dollar as if it were a newborn lamb...
...flag. "Good, good," cried an elderly Chinese greybeard. Bolder rioters stormed into the embassy compound; on their heels came a frenzied mob. The rioters crashed into the embassy building itself, shouting, sacking and destroying. U.S. Ambassador Karl Rankin's safe was hurled out of a second-floor window onto the roof of his Cadillac. Desks, Venetian blinds, papers, files and other office equipment fell in a hail from the embassy window. Secret files and papers were strewn about like wastepaper. Some of the rioters shouted: "Destroy, but don't steal...
This was an unnerving sight in the dim dawn-light which filtered in the window, and we were disturbed; we stared silently and the olive seemed to stare back...
...given by friends largely to Jacqueline, who runs the house, tenderly cares for "Pablito," and delights him by making his favorite Spanish sausage, chorizo, or a surprise dessert of Turkish halvah. Jacqueline has also served as model for the series of 50-odd paintings such as Woman by a Window (see left), that Picasso had turned out using his new Cannes studio as a theme...
...draftsmanship nor his virtuoso ability to improvise on a theme until it is obedient to his will. With age, Picasso becomes more impatient. His own limitations-an insensibility to the sensual qualities of paint, a violence and haste in execution-stand forth more clearly. In Woman by a Window, Picasso, who uses boat paint "or whatever they give me," worked over the area of the model's shoulders with an intensity that has made a bulge in the canvas, but he has barely sketched in the right side of the canvas...