Word: earliest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most astounding picture portrays Eleanor as the Cross, and the Cross as Eleanor. The cross is formed by the vertical line from the top of her buttocks to her knees, and horizontal line across the bottom of both buttocks. It is called simply "Eleanor." But this is the earliest portrait in the series, and successively larger fractions of her anatomy are included in successive pictures. Again, who is to say which is the "best" portrait...
Pollock's widow, Painter Lee Krasner. At the party before the openings, both old friends and those who had never met Pollock were equally enthusiastic. Jasper Johns was particularly taken with the extraordinary range and variety of the works in the exhibition, which begins with Pollock's earliest, and remarkably mediocre, landscapes, reflecting the influence of his first mentor, Thomas Hart Benton, continues through his famous "drip" paintings of the late 1940s and early 1950s, and concludes with his anguished return to figuration just before his death...
...museum's earliest crude stone implements take cavemankind back to about 100,000 B.C. More recent galleries commemorate the multifaceted Arabic culture that flourished from the 10th to the 13th centuries after Christ. In between are writings older than the Bible,* the world's oldest statuary, and 25-ton winged bulls with plaited beards and human heads that were once used to ward off evil from palaces and temples near Nineveh...
Some years ago, when asked about the cultural shock of adjusting to the U.S. after 14 years in China, Luce said: "I was never disillusioned with or by America, but I was from my earliest manhood dissatisfied with America...
...proxy-seeking entreaties that cost the two sides well over $500,000 between them. After the company's raucous four-hour annual meeting ended, the slow process of tallying up the votes of its shareowners finally got under way. The results, due sometime this week at the earliest, could have momentous consequences not only for MGM, but for the entire entertainment industry as well...