Word: baths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...caliber of the work. "Fabulous!" raved the critic for the prestigious Neue Zurcher. "A collection of many practically unknown masterpieces." Particularly admired were two Van Goghs, a Landscape of Auvers painted just three weeks before his death in 1890 and an 1886 self-portrait. A voluptuous Renoir, After the Bath, painted in 1876, is the twin to one in Moscow's Push kin Museum. Also on view are outstand ing paintings by Cezanne, Delacroix, Millet, Manet, Monet, Degas and Corot. But, for many critics, the most exciting works were four oils and two sepia sketches of the view through...
Endowed with typical Lutheran Nordic conservatism, the blond, blue-eyed Finn only slowly adopts the fads of the West. Miniskirts are just now appearing on Helsinki's streets. The Finn's first love remains the sauna bath. More than half a million families have their own private steam rooms, where temperatures rise to 275°F as the bather briskly whips his body with wet birch branches before dashing out and leaping into a frigid lake or snow bank. The sauna is said to develop the quality of sisu-a combination of courage, stamina, tenacity and stubbornness. Sisu...
...simply by ringing a buzzer. Although as a rule, men may still not advance above the lobby floor of residences, they have free run of the Y.W.'s recreational areas. The Boston center, which last week held its 100th annual meeting, has even opened its sauna bath and pool once a week for a "businessmen's plunge...
Finally, there is Prince Charming, a young man named Paul who is much given to writing palinodes in his bath. For her part, Snow White finds him to be more frog than prince. It all winds up when Jane poisons Paul by mistake, after which Bill is tried and executed for vatricide-he let the fire go out under the bubbling cauldrons of Chinese baby food...
...plants are linked by cheap water transport, the Ohio and Monongahela rivers. Despite his selloff, Simon kept a 4% interest in Wheeling (100,000 shares). If the price climbs eleven points from last week's close of 21⅜, Simon could yet escape from his bath in steel with a profit...