Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dating Year 1 from Dec. 2, 1942, when the first controlled atomic chain reaction was achieved by Enrico Fermi and his associates in the celebrated squash court beneath the grandstand of the University of Chicago's Stagg Field. The first atomic bomb was exploded in 1945 from a steel tower at Alamagordo...
...their car they saw the surrounding houses crumble. Bricks shot through the air as if fired from cannon-one struck a running man in the head and killed him. Dazed survivors in pajamas wandered among the trees. A man babbled, "I thought it was the hydrogen bomb." Only one wall of the main post office remained standing. A five-story building shrank in size as the earth swallowed up the two lower floors. People groped through the ruins calling for members of their families. Perhaps the most crippling disaster was the total collapse of three apartment buildings housing physicians...
...original artists developed their own strong individual styles, but all were lumped together as "decadents" by the Nazis. Heckel may have suffered the most: more than 700 of his pictures were yanked from museums, many of them to be burned or hacked to pieces, and when an Allied bomb destroyed his house, it destroyed a large part of what remained of his life's work...
Heckel in his 20s was a bursting bomb. With Kirchner and Schmidt-Rottluff, he worked in a studio that had once been a cobbler's shop in the working-class district of Dresden. Since the three young artists were in revolt against convention, including the hiring of professional models, they painted their own girl friends in the nude; at any one time three or four of these young ladies might be milling in happy nakedness around the kerosene stove, on which a pot of coffee was always steaming. The artists worked at any hour of the day or night...
...spite of the script, Mondo Cane is a gripping and sometimes extremely moving film. The most powerful scene was filmed on an island near Bikini, showing how animals and birds have been violently affected by the radiation from H-bomb tests. Fish have come out of the water to live in trees, and birds have tunneled underground, never to fly again. Other birds have been trying for years to hatch eggs killed by the bomb, and sea turtles whose sense of direction has been destroyed by radiation crawl inland and die after laying their eggs. After a panorama shot...