Word: finests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...finest sight on Broadway this season is the lithesome legs of Noelle Adam, who dances in and out of Richard Rodgers' in-Paris-and-in-love musical, No Strings, in the role of a cheerfully chased photographer's assistant. A onetime ballerina, Mile. Adam scampers about in a baggy sweater that sets off a leotard hardly big enough to cover a Persian cat, blithely displaying the charms that her tutu used to hide...
...finest of all the Piraeus figures, the kouros was thus firmly packed with the original sculptor's clay. Water seeping into it for 2,000 years had made the clay expand, cracking the bronze in several places and squeezing out through the cracks. Before the statue could be restored, the clay had to be extracted. This was done slowly and painfully by water jets and scraping tools inserted through the cracks. Then the outside surface was brushed, baked in an oven and treated to cure blisters and a surface condition that Greek archaeologists call "bronze tuberculosis." At last...
...centuries B.C., some of the finest artisans were to be found in the south, especially around Taranto, the last of the great Greek western colonies. Never before had craftsmen worked with such ingenuity or achieved greater elegance: earlier ornaments like the amber head, made 2,500 years ago (the color caption is in error), had a rather childlike innocence. The blue bronze hands may have been used to decorate some sort of handle; whatever their secret, they remain one artisan's lasting tribute to feminine grace. Of all the collections in the Taranto region, the richest was found...
What of next year? The league will be stronger than ever. Yale, the defending champion, has its whole team minus Bill Madden returning. That team includes sophomores Dennis Lynch and Bill Kaminsky, two of the finest players the league has seen in years...
...Parade-each of which is the climax of scores of paintings and sketches on the same theme. These themes preoccupied Léger for more than ten years before his death, at 74, in 1955. The climactic paintings (he called them "états définitijs") are among his finest, and at least one, Grand Parade, may be his masterpiece...