Word: armes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Over 60 per cent of the Harvard-Radcliffe graduating seniors wore white arm-bands with double red bars to protest for equal admissions for men and women...
Nobody will ever know what went through the scrambled circuits of Laszlo Toth's brain when he climbed over the guardrail of the chapel of the Pieta in St. Peter's Basilica and started battering with his hammer at the Madonna's resigned stone arm, the folded veil, the nose, the translucent shell of her left eyelid. But one may guess: Toth had lost all power to distinguish between an image and the reality it denotes...
...religious edifices, 200 state museums and many more regional and local museums. The number of works of art within them is beyond guessing-most collections remain uncatalogued-but the task of overseeing them falls to the Direzione Generale delle Antichita e Belle Arti, or Fine Arts Administration, an arm of the Ministry of Education that receives a mere 3% of the ministry's budget. The whole artistic heritage of Italy is supervised by 95 archaeologists, 92 art historians, 107 architects and 58 technicians. By comparison, New York's Metropolitan alone has a professional staff...
...citizen interpreted the man's upraised arm as a Nazi salute. The same assertive gesture, in addition to the man's taller stature, was interpreted by militant women as male chauvinism. Actually, the male's position was intended to show how the human arm moves and to display man's fingers and opposed thumb; the woman's stance demonstrates not passivity but the workings of the hip. Also, Drake observes, most men really are taller than most women...
...minutes 45 seconds for the liver, and so on. "Active in the World" calls for lying motionless, forearms supported on elbows, palms facing the feet, while feeling "the tissues of your body actively engaged in the dance of Life." The instructions for "Passive in the Cosmos" specify one arm held straight up from the shoulder while the believer feels himself "absorbing the vibrations of the solar system and beyond...