Word: elegante
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With all the other reading they have to do, it is unlikely that any of the shapers of U.S. foreign policy ever took time out to read Feather and the Salmon. Last week as elegant, 51-year-old Christian Pineau arrived in the U.S. "to coordinate our policies," it was...
Her proposition: that Bob move in as Sanders' ghost artist while she and the cartoonist are off on their honeymoon. Additional comedy is supplied by Pearl Bailey, who doubles as narrator and songbird when she is not pretending to be Sanders' maid, as well as by a small...
At luncheons and receptions in the most ornate halls of the Grand Kremlin Palace, surrounded by grinning, handshaking Russian bureaucrats and bemedaled officers of the Kremlin guard in gold-braided green uniforms. Tito contrived to look unimpressed. His handsome, dark-skinned wife Jovanka outshone the dowdy official Russian wives with...
Plumes for the Joust. "A homogeneous suit of medieval armor is much rarer than a medieval castle or cathedral," says the Met's Arms and Armor Curator Stephen V. Grancsay. But the few suits that have survived show that by the mid-15th century, armorers had achieved near perfection...
Rising Man. In 1936, two years after Fadeyev joined the presidium of the Union of Soviet Writers, Gorky died suddenly. Then people began asking questions. Where is Isaac (Red Cavalry) Babel? What has happened to Novelist Boris (Mother Earth) Pilniak? Why is the work of Poet Boris (Above the Barriers...