Word: depiction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unrest has spawned gangs with such sinistersounding names as the Savage Skulls, Young Sinners, Savage Nomads, Mongols and Reapers. Each clique has from 20 to 50 members ruled by a president, vice president and warlord. Their "colors," elaborate coats-of-arms stitched to the backs of their denim jackets, depict bloody skeletons and skulls, fire and lightning. Their arsenals include not only clubs, chains, knives and zip guns but also Molotov cocktails, rifles, shotguns and, say youth workers, hand grenades and machine guns...
Packages can be shipped-and protected-in any language, too. These symbols instruct shippers and cargo handlers to "keep frozen" and "keep dry." Equally clear are labels that depict a broken goblet ("fragile"), a crossed-out hook ("use no hooks") and a package separated from the sun by a heavy diagonal line ("protect from heat...
...blue." In works like Sapphire, 1971, the fluttering accumulation of yellow, red and purple across the grid is so eye-fooling that, after a while, analysis stops; instead, one submits to the pressure of light that emanates from the field. Color becomes an absolute phenomenon; it needs to depict nothing to reveal its action. It may be that no American painter since Rothko has contrived to transform pigment into meditation more effectively than Zakanych. "I got completely sick of all the cool, boring, systematic painting that was around in New York a few years ago," he says...
...exquisite sculpture depicting the ancient Egyptian Queen testifies to the appropriateness of her name: Nefertiti, "The Beautiful One Is Come." Now University of Pennsylvania Archaeologist Ray Winfield Smith has suggested that she had brains to match her looks. His evidence: carvings on the scattered fragments of a temple erected at Karnak in the 14th century B.C. by the Queen's husband, Pharaoh Akhenaten. After analyzing photographs of 35,000 pieces of this archaeological jigsaw puzzle, Smith reports that Nefertiti is depicted more often than the Pharaoh-an unheard-of honor for a woman of her time. Akhenaten...
Mussolini's Millions. Gollin guesses that the wealth of Catholicism round the world totals $70 billion, most of it tied up in real estate. As for the church's headquarters, Gollin's two chapters on Vatican finances depict a much shrewder investment operation than that in the American branch office. In 1929 Mussolini paid the Vatican, which was then virtually broke, $92 million in return for Italy's previous takeover of the Papal States. By 1968, Vatican-employed businessmen, chiefly Bernardino Nogara, a Jewish banker, had parlayed this into a $300 million stake in the Italian...