Word: finests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Your cover was enough to make me want to give up smoking-sadistic symbolism at its finest...
...history of TIME'S cover portrait on this Easter issue is as touched with mystery as the life of the cover subject. This luminous, tempera-on-wood painting of St. Paul, one of the finest examples of early Italian Renaissance art, hangs in Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art. The experts do not agree on who the artist was; most attribute it to the 14th century school of Simone Martini in Siena. Yet the master himself was probably not the painter; most likely, it is the work of his brother-in-law and pupil, Lippo Memmi. Experts speculate...
Ikiru (Japanese). A man tries to do good before he dies, succeeds, and brutally ironic agonies follow. Perhaps the finest achievement of Director Akira (Rashomon) Kurosawa...
Symbolic of the swimming surge were the defeats of Indianapolis' Frank McKinney Jr. (son of the onetime Democratic National Committee chairman), who had been the finest U.S. backstroker in history. Last week, swimming as well as ever, the 21-year-old McKinney was twice trounced by the University of Southern California's late-blooming Charlie Bittick, who tied the American record for the 100 in 54.4, set the record for the 220 in 2:13.1. And the 2O-year-old Bittick frankly said, "I'm scared" by the times of 17-year-old Roger Goettsche...
Ikiru (Japanese). A man tries to do good before he dies, succeeds, and brutal ironies follow, in a film that is perhaps the finest achievement of Director Akira (Rashomon) Kurosawa...