Word: fairings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...25th but Painting in France 1900-1967, the current exhibit at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, which brings together a terribly impressive roster of painters who have worked in France during this century. With the peculiar arrogance of the French, everyone who has painted within her borders is fair game for the show and just about every major European painter of the century is included. And with the peculiar canniness of the French, they are right. Somehow France is the place where people go to escape, to change, to be alone, or to find community...
...full 18 days after Panamanians had gone to the polls to choose a new President, Opposition Candidate Arnulfo Arias, 67, was last week finally declared the winner. The government insisted that the long count was necessary in order to ensure a fair tabulation of the votes and give election-day passions in the volatile nation a chance to cool down. Arias supporters charged that President Marco Aurelio Robles was really only buying time so that the ballot boxes could be stuffed in favor of his government candidate, former Finance Minister David Samudio...
...collection, estimated to be worth $10 million, includes outstanding works by Goya, Velásquez, Murillo, Zurbaran and El Greco (see color pages). It not only represents the pick of the Prado, but also includes paintings from other Spanish museums. The exhibit is designed to tie in with the fair's theme, "The Confluence of Civilizations," by demonstrating that Spanish culture is itself a confluence of influences: Latin, Visigoth and Moorish. Even more pertinent is a 1767 map showing the New World's Spanish dominions, with San Antonio de Béjar clearly marked...
...leisurely, as if their ways, Inherited from better days, Knew mildness and the atmosphere Held in suspension, even here, A sense of ceremonial, Of courtesy, of ritual, As if even here, unconsciously, We moved in grave amenity, Or dwelt in grace, as if the air Bespoke us laudable and fair...
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