Word: doves
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crowd of 500,000 Cubans looked on, 1 8 Soviet-built MIG-17s plus three supersonic MIG-19s thundered over the reviewing stand. One MIG cracked the sound barrier with a thunderclapping boom. Below, past 100-ft.-high pictures of Castro. Lenin and Picasso's peace dove, the ground forces paraded to the strains of the Communist Internationale-artillery with radar-aiming devices, multiple rocket launchers, double-barrelled antiaircraft guns and Soviet 51-ton tanks...
...artist's sudden death sent Pollock prices skyrocketing. The Albright was the first museum in the world to buy a Clyfford Still and one of the first to buy a Henry Moore. It now has at least one work by almost every major abstractionist from the late Arthur Dove and Wassily Kandinsky to Willem DeKooning. Mark Tobey and Robert Motherwell. Today, says Knox-and not many in the art world would disagree-there is only one collection of abstract work that is better, the one in the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan...
...wasn't that the other Jasper stars collapsed; they wore beaten. In the most thrilling race of the afternoon, don Kirkland dove to victory in the 600, nipping the Jaspers' vaunted captain Ron Green. Kirkland ran like he owned the Cage track; he seemed to move fastest on the treacherous turns. In the 600, he stayed behind McArdle and green of Manhattan, graciously allowing them to kill each other for the lead. On the final lap he began kicking, erased a 20-foot margin, and won at the wire. later, in the two-mile relay, Kirkland opened a wide...
...cloud above the gate, the Heavenly Referee descends. It is Jawaharlal Nehru, wearing the official striped shirt of a football referee and the official hat of the Congress Party. In his left hand is an olive branch, in his right a speech; on his hat sits a white dove...
...Jamesian spirit, Composer Moore, 68, wrote a score that has none of the folksy American flavor of Baby Doe or Daniel Webster. It surges forward with a propulsive flow that rarely stops for set pieces or arias. The opera is also highly melodic, most effectively in Milly's Dove Song, which soars over ribbons of strings, and in a fine female duet ("He will, he must He'll be coming back" ) toward the end. For all that, Wings of the Dove suffers from a case of dramatic anemia. Composer Moore does his best to summon drama where...