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...Olivier, but in the 1950s Gordon Scott, a Las Vegas lifeguard turned actor, re-created a literate Tarzan and won acclaim for sporting the loincloth in one of the series' best films, 1959's sweeping and suspenseful Tarzan's Greatest Adventure. Scott, who faded into obscurity in the '60s, was aware that his appeal lay in his beefy pecs. "Tarzan was ideal for me," he said, "because I didn't have too much dialogue...
...retired New York Giants quarterback. But Halberstam’s Crimson writings jumped off the sports page to the front page, and they touched upon the Cold War concerns that would reappear throughout his life work. He reported on the Red Scare that swept the nation in the early 1950s, as Senator Joseph McCarthy and his allies took aim at the “Kremlin on the Charles” and as the newly-inaugurated President Nathan M. Pusey fired back...
...since independence. Adjaye has his eyes largely on colonial and Modernist architecture, but also on the more informal architectural phenomena—marketplaces, slums, and so on—that spring up without the support or consent of the government. Directly following achievements of national independence in the late 1950s and 1960s, Modernist architecture became a powerful public symbol of progress and optimism. Although Modernism was meant as a break from colonial architecture, it implicitly bought into European aesthetic values and alienated the public for which the buildings and monuments were built, something apparent in the lack of public engagement...
VACLAV HAVEL, former President of the Czech Republic, called him a "Maoist, a Trotskyist ... a phenomenon unto himself." Starting in the 1950s, rebel philosopher-poet Egon Bondy drew followers with his surreal fiction--published and distributed covertly--which offered veiled, witty critiques of his country's Stalinist government. But the weirdest and most influential role the vocal Marxist played was as the inspiration and lyricist for a seminal Czech underground rock band, the Plastic People of the Universe. The arrest of the Plastics at a 1976 rally sparked Charter 77, the Havel-led protest movement that in 1989 toppled...
...provides the necessary context for laypeople to understand the significance of the series. The second, retrospective-based room is a valuable addition that makes the exhibit more comprehensive and educational. Arranged chronologically and including works up through Léger’s time in New York in the 1950s, the retrospective places the “Contrasts of Forms” exhibition in the context of his more representational style. The legacy of Léger’s early experimentation is seen in the fragmented forms, but his return to representative art is impossible to miss...