Word: arced
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most precious French prize to fall into English hands since Joan of Arc. At 2 o'clock one morning last July, a large crate was off-loaded at London airport. Inside was a 51-in. by 76-in. oil painting by Paul Cézanne. Called Les Grandes Baigneuses, or The Bathers, it had been purchased by Britain's National Gallery for $1,400,000, the highest published price ever paid for a French painting. Unlike Joan of Arc, the English were not altogether sure that they wanted...
Molyneux is a curious hybrid. An Englishman whose line is Arc de Triomphe, never Marble Arch, he is the Parisian equivalent of Manhattan's Mainbocher, a classicist devoted to the soft look and tailored line. Let others raise hems to the heavens; for Molyneux, knee-length skirts are no less "absolutely vulgar" today than in 1928, when he first said so. The new Molyneux collection was unabashedly oldfashioned, and it drew both snippish sniffs ("Typically British," deplored the London Daily Telegraph) and soulful sighs ("The style and taste are still there," cooed the Daily Mail...
Trial of Joan of Arc. With the exception of Carl Dreyer's silent classic The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), the numerous films about the martyred Maid of Orleans have contributed very little to art and less to the box office. The subject thus seems a natural for French Director Robert Bresson (Diary of a Country Priest, Pickpocket), who for more than two decades has been making austere, praiseworthy, but unpopular movies. Bresson's treatment of the Trial of Joan is characteristically ascetic; but it is also quintessential history, unique and timeless, graced with a master...
...hours a day, bowler-hatted Detective Sergeant Edmund Murray, Sir Winston's longtime personal bodyguard, kept order in the crowded street. When Churchill's life appeared to be ebbing, Moran relayed Lady Churchill's request that reporters and TV crews disperse. Within minutes, the arc lights winked out, endless coils of wire were cleared away, and the street was empty, with one small glow showing through the fanlight...
Most of the money, $1.17 billion, goes for military assistance. Three-fourths of that amount is earmarked for the eleven countries that border the Communist bloc in "the great arc from Greece to Korea": Greece, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, India, Thailand, Laos, South Viet Nam, Formosa, the Philippines, and South Korea. An additional $369 million in "supporting assistance" is to be allocated to help maintain economic stability in the countries that the U.S. is aiding militarily; of that amount, 88% would go to South Viet Nam, Laos, Korea and Jordan. More than $500 million of the military and supporting assistance would...