Word: styling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gambling joints in Tokyo, in Guatemala City-but was determined to get back to Manila by hook or crook. One day a small Panama-flag freighter named Maria Ines sailed into Manila harbor, ostensibly to pick up a cargo of fruit for Australia. But Magsaysay's alert FBI-style National Bureau of Investigation had been tipped off that Lewin owned the ship, had signed on its crew and was aboard himself. They found him listed as second mate and refused to let him land. For the next two months Manila witnessed a bizarre spectacle. Lewin protested that...
...either aspect, however, the artist nearly always proves himself master of his media. He imparts to his line the freedom one would expect of an ink drawing, while still retaining that rugged quality essential to a woodcut. His style, usually a decorative realism, varies with the mood and subject matter; but in almost every print Amen succeeds in evoking his desired effect, whether it be that of power or of mere cuteness...
India is a land where yesterday is more visible than tomorrow, where millions still follow the style of dress, architecture and behavior to be seen in the ruins and sculptures of Mohenjo-daro, a city of the Indus Valley that nourished and died 4,000 years ago. Yet next door to the oxcart and the primitive wooden plow lies an India as modern as Pittsburgh, with belching smoke by day and glaring fire by night...
...dozen fronts, ranging from brush-fire wars to all-out attack, political penetration of underdeveloped areas and "diplomatic blackmail." Worst of all, said Rostow, Russia is creating among neutrals the "psychological image of an ardent competitor closing fast on a front runner who prefers to go down in style rather than make the effort to maintain his status...
NONFICTION 1. Act One, Hart (1) 2. This Is My God, Wouk (3) 3. The Status Seekers, Packard (2) 4. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (4) 5. For 2? Plain, Golden (5) 6. The Elements of Style, Strunk and White (7) 7. The Armada, Mattingly (6) 8. Groucho and Me, Marx (8) 9. Candidates 1960, Sevareid 10. The Longest Day, Ryan...