Word: yo-yo
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...turning on alternate currents of bellicosity and reasonableness, Khrushchev had tried to play Western tensions over Berlin as he would (in the current Washington phrase) "with a yo-yo." But his freehanded game was clearly hampered by East Germany's troubles. The U.S. was determined to control its own response, not bounce up and down as Khrushchev wished. Off to Paris flew Secretary of State Dean Rusk, for a meeting of the Western foreign ministers at which free world diplomatic strategy is to be hammered out. As the talks began, it was clear that there would eventually...
...subjects of Strombotne's painting, Yo-Yo, were easily recognizable as Pablo Picasso and Kathy (his stepdaughter since his marriage to Jacqueline). The photographs he used as models can be found in The Private World of Pablo Picasso, by David D. Duncan. The "Lolita-like" girl is Kathy, the figure for the man is, of all people, Gary Cooper, and the face of the "sinister" old man is Picasso...
...apparently innocent and light-hearted scene called Yo-Yo turns out to be quite sinister: the Lolita-like girl with the Yo-Yo flaunts her body seductively while an old man with chalk-white face and sunburned bare legs leers and chortles. In The Bath, an orange-colored woman sits by a potbellied male whose nude body has the color of death and whose face is covered with purple squiggles suggesting decay. Even Strombotne's self-portrait-an elongated figure with beard and dark glasses-seems tortured. The wrists are crossed as if waiting...
...into "the world's largest outdoor swimming pool" (1,600,000gallons of cold filtered brine) or ascend the highest tower in Britain, a red-painted, 520-ft. structure that once in a blue sky affords a view of Wales's Mount Snowdon, 150 miles distant. They yo-yo back and forth between fish 'n' chip houses and some of the United Kingdom's most capacious pubs (Blackpool has 105, one of which can handle 1,000 guzzlers at a time). They also toss away the oversize coins of the realm in penny arcades...
With a few months of acting lessons behind her, Nancy wept well enough. Says Director Richard Quine: "She leaps to the bait like a hungry trout. She never has to be told twice, and she's resilient as a Yo-Yo." Daughter of a Chinese architect and an English-born Conover-model mother, Nancy knows Suzie Wong's world as well as anyone in the cast. When she was not absorbing an education in Hong Kong's Roman Catholic Maryknoll convent school, she was playing in the city where Suzie herself grew...