Word: bas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nola may have to do even greater things if Portugal is to keep its new-found democracy. Even as the cheers echoed through Lisbon and the ubiquitous red carnations were still fresh, the dark outline of Portugal's multitudinous problems loomed behind the celebrations like a grim, surrealistic bas-relief...
Lithe Bodies. Considering what the dancers were doing on stage at the premiere, the mural did, at moments, serve as a kind of bas-relief. The youthful (average age: 21) Harkness troupers have splendidly lithe bodies for ballet. They are uniformly well schooled and delight in showing off, even flaunting, their imposing technique. Unfortunately, the choreography they are called upon to perform is of a piece with Senor Senis-Oliver's mural: epicene, self-indulgent and fundamentally empty...
...CHRISTMAS POEM, presented by the Black Wheat Theater, with an exhibit of medieval scenes in bas-reliefs by Claude Roche. And if that's not enough for you, you're probably hopeless. 8:30 at Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury Street in Boston...
...celebrate the 150th anniversary of its founding, the Brooklyn Museum has assembled a rare collection of objects from Amenhotep's reign, largely through the efforts of Curator Bernard V. Bothmer, who has spent three years negotiating the loans. Some 200 in all, the objects range from beautifully incised bas-reliefs of domestic life to sensitively molded small heads of princesses, high officials and the merely young...
...about 16 and set out to revolutionize the age-old system of multiple deities, substituting a single god, Aten, symbolized by the sun. In fact, he changed his own name to Akhenaten, meaning Useful to Aten. Women's Lib would have loved him: he gave equal billing, in bas-relief and statuary, to his Queen, Nefertiti. She was portrayed in the sleek drapery she might actually have worn, one shoulder bare, a clasp under her right breast. In dark red quartz, the Queen's torso, on loan from the Louvre, is one of the beauties of the exhibition...