Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FRITZ KOENIG-Staempfli, 47 East 77th. A host of entities merge in cast bronzes by West Germany's foremost sculptor. From such subjects as an ancient quadriga, Manhattan and a man in a landscape, he fashions a miracle of the union of one life with another. Through...
...60th. A Hungarian who migrated to the Holy Land 30 years ago, Gilboa settled in the artists' colony at Safad and became one of Israel's popular painters. The oils in his first U.S. exhibition are technically amateurish, but his watercolors adroitly convey an obvious affection for ancient alleyways, sun-parched marketplaces, and the Galilean countryside. Through...
...location in Greece and Turkey, the movie pays respectful tribute to those sere landscapes that feed souls but starve bellies. More eloquent than a land are the faces of its people. Kazan feelingly catches the poetry of peasants, which sometimes works against him because his native extras emanate an ancient sadness only hinted at by the professionals playing at stage center. Awkward dubbing mars the film too, for the disembodied voices on the sound track draw attention to themselves...
...Ancient Automation...
Genetic Lottery. Classical hemophilia, known since ancient times, is caused by a severe shortage of clotting Factor VIII. This disease, which afflicted a dozen descendants of Queen Victoria, results from a defect in a recessive gene carried on the x (female) chromosome. If a hemophilic man marries a normal woman, all their sons are normal but all their daughters are carriers. If a carrier woman marries a normal man (see diagram), each son has a fifty-fifty chance of being a victim and each daughter has a fifty-fifty chance of being a carrier. No one can predict whether...