Word: tree
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...artist's model is surviving the art. At 53 years of age, the U.S. Indianhead nickel is now vanishing like a lost tribe. But at 103, Seneca Chief John Big Tree, one of the three men who posed for the 5? bas-relief by Sculptor James Earle Fraser, has suffered little depreciation. Chief Big Tree has so much mettle, in fact, that he traveled down from his home near Syracuse, N.Y., to help the Chase Manhattan Bank observe the 100th anniversary of the first U.S. nickel. The celebration featured a nickelodeon, a cigar-store Indian and a carrousel buffalo...
...TALE OF PETER RABBIT (Wonderland). This tops all other versions of the oft-told Beatrix Potter classic. Vivien Leigh tells it as if she had grown up at the foot of the old fir tree, and Lyricist David Croft and Musician Cyril Ornadel hit it off like Lerner & Loewe. It takes a hard heart not to melt at naughty Peter's wistful "Why do I do it?" Pity that this team has cut only two other Potter records: The Tale of Benjamin Bunny and The Tale of Jemima Puddleduck...
Strung up by his heels from a tree limb, the Viet Cong prisoner, his face twisted in pain, was being interrogated by Nung mercenaries working with a U.S. Special Forces unit in the jungle near Due Phong. The photograph caught an ugly tableau found in every war, and it was widely reprinted in the U.S. press, often with indignant captions. As so often happens with coverage of Allied harshness, neither the picture nor many of its captions told the whole story...
...slipped outdoors and got lost on the grounds of the rented villa in Rome where Liz, Dick and the menagerie are staying while they shoot The Taming of the Shrew. Next morning at 5, Charlie Brown awakened the family with anguished meowing from the top of a fir tree, and out trooped Liz, Dick and butler to the rescue. The butler bravely ascended the fir, but when he started down with Charlie, the cat squirmed loose, plummeting onto Liz's head and misbehaving on the spot. Then the butler's ladder fell, also clonking Charlie's mistress...
Tastes have also changed. Tourists-with the possible exception of the Germans-no longer have the ambition to plow through such weighty tomes as the Guides Bleus, which describe every stone and tree in fine print. "To sell," says one London publisher, "you have to put out atmospherics. You have to provide a well-written feeling for the place, a lot of color, a lot of narrative." Such books are all to the good, for when they are done by sensitive writers, they can achieve an almost poetic understanding of places they cover. One such series is the Companion Guides...