Word: canvases
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Considering the prefight confusion and the Venezuelan government's insistence that the fight be televised on home screens, it was no surprise that the multimillion-dollar sports palace El Poliedro was only half full by fight time. Nor should it have really been a surprise when Foreman walked in...
Five minutes after the fight started, Norton was sprawled across that canvas in a daze. Nonviolent George Foreman dispatched Norton just as he had Joe Frazier and 38 other opponents -with brute force. Stalking Norton like a boxing Frankenstein, Foreman tossed aside his opponent's punches as though they...
In the current retrospective of more than 200 Giacometti sculptures, drawings and paintings at Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum, there is a painting that epitomizes what he meant. It is not a figure but a still life: one solitary apple on a small sideboard, painted in 1937. The color is...
Unfortunately, Director Schaffner's natural taste is for the big, expensive canvas. The slickness of his work vitiates any attempt to take Papillon with entire seriousness. Prison life is more picturesque than genuinely horrifying, and the escapes into the world outside are seen through a National Geographic lens brightly...
WINDJAMMER PARADE edited by Hans Hansen. 112 pages. Viking. $16.50. There is only a scrap of text to explain that in the Olympic year of 1972 some 65 of the world's largest windjammers closed a series of races by parading into the harbor of Kiel, West Germany. The...