Word: canvases
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The bandy-legged, broken-nosed little boxer on the scales was Pasquale Giuseppe DeMarco, weighing in for his crack at Jimmy Carter's lightweight championship of the world. Standing beside him, New York Boxing Commissioner Robert Christenberry nudged the weights into position, squinted at the figures and absentmindedly identified...
At the entrance to a Paris exhibition stood a blue-uniformed policeman. "En-trez, Messieurs-Mesdames," he called, "everything you see around you is false." The show, organized by the Surete Generale to increase vigilance against artistic forgeries, contained fake stamps, coins, "neolithic'' pottery, manuscripts and old masters...
Designed by Ford's engineers as a "personal" car as well as a competition sports car. the new model is light enough (weight: 2,833 Ibs.) for speed, has a wheel base long enough for comfort (102 in.) yet short enough for good roadability. With the top up. the...
Miss Julie displays far more effectively the genius of director Alf Sjoberg than that of Strindberg, for the visual effects threaten to swallow the story itself. Although the script changes barley a line of the play, the film projects the drama on an infinitely broader canvas, interpolating speeches with artful...
Berlin-born Karl Zerbe, who dislikes oils, has painted with egg yolk, casein, fig milk, wax soap, Duco auto enamel and hot beeswax. His wax technique-a revival of the ancient encaustic method in which colors are mixed with hot wax and afterwards cooked into the canvas-brought him critical...