Word: 1950s
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This creative explosion is best documented in Europe, largely because that is where most of the excavations have taken place. Early body decoration, for example, was found in the 1950s by Soviet archaeologists at Sungir, near the Russian city of Vladimir. From graves dating back to 28,000 B.P., they unearthed the remains of a 10-year-old girl, a 12-year-old boy and a 60-year-old man. The three are festooned with beads, more than 14,000 all told. But each is adorned in a different way, evidence that body decoration was used to emphasize gender...
Based on the critically acclaimed book by Nicholas Lemann, thisfive-part documentary series-- airing Sunday, Monday through Wednesday and Saturday on the Discovery Channel (check local listings) -- is about the 1950s black migration from the oppressive conditions of the Mississippi Delta to the then-booming city of Chicago.TIME critic Richard Zoglinsays the understated narration by Morgan Freeman, evocative music and plainspoken words of people who lived through it, make it a must-see. Its "unhurried gravity is something close to poetry," Zoglin says...
...alternative political and cultural views produced through these programs threaten Republican hegemony and especially annoy the narrowminded religious right. Streisand identified the Republicans' real reason for targeting these programs for the budget axe--a reactionary desire to return the country to the conservative cultural framework of the 1950s (the era of suburban bliss when minorities and women "knew their places...
Both are also the inspiration of the same person, Giancarlo del Monaco, one of the busiest directors around. Del Monaco, 51, is opera royalty: his father Mario was a thrilling, heroic tenor of the 1950s. Giancarlo speaks-or more often shouts-five languages. He knows all the operas, even works like Fedora and Francesca da Rimini, by heart because he spent his childhood in the wings. He also knows the stress points; when his father sang, his mother used to stand behind the boy with her hand on his shoulder; when the hard parts came, her grip tightened...
Schlossberg's fliers, for a class taught byProfessor of English Marjorie Garber, feature asketch from the 1950s of a woman wearingleopard-skin clothing, standing in a living roomdecorated entirely in leopard-skin prints...