Word: comeback
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...holdout of them all, Critic Bernard Berenson,,' who once dismissed their whole school as "worthless." Wrote Berenson in Milan's Corriere della Sera: "After a century of obscurity and almost oblivion the Carracci, with a roll of drums and the sound of trumpets, have made their great comeback in Bologna." Berenson still refused to place the Carracci "among the greatest painters," but he gave a cheer for Annibale's Butcher Shop. Said he: "My attention is attracted by the realism that pervades this painting. I do not recall elsewhere movement, gestures or expressions so real...
Climaxing this fine comeback after losing the first two games in Brooklyn, the Yankees ended a two-year span of National League supremacy and restored the American's edge to 34-19. Only one other club, the Dodgers of 1955, ever fought back to win a seven-game series after dropping the first...
...made any mistake in its line during the past 25 years." Public Security Minister Lo Jui-ching, who between 1950 and 1955 had directed the greatest mass liquidation in history (TIME, March 5), confidently announced that it was now "totally impossible for counter-revolutionaries to stage a comeback in China...
...biggest, most elaborate and most thoroughly forgotten paintings in American history is heading for a comeback. A 165-ft. panorama of the palace and gardens at Versailles, painted in two CinemaScope-like sections, it is being installed this week in a specially built circular room in Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum. Versailles is a masterwork of sobersided, redheaded John Vanderlyn (1775-1852), a painter deeply admired in his youth, deeply pitied in old age, and deeply buried in the textbooks after his death. The picture's new home at the Met should do much to rescue Painter Vanderlyn from...
...hang up her spikes. While her husband Richard Tyler fought in the Middle East, Dotty Tyler drove trucks and led W.A.A.F.s through physical training. But when a bomb blew up her mother's home and clobbered her collection of prizes in the process, Dotty determined to try a comeback. Even the birth of her first child did not take her mind off the 1948 Olympics. The Tylers were living with Dotty's mother, a former acrobatic dancer, who was only too happy to serve as baby sitter while her daughter worked out at the Mitcham Athletic Club. When...