Word: hand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fishing boat's pulpit stood the intrepid harpooner, dart-tipped pole in hand. Down flashed the steel into a huge sperm whale. After that came a battle off Cape Finisterre that lasted several hours, reported Madrid's daily ABC, and when all the thrashing and splashing were over, Spain's Francisco Franco, 75, had landed himself a 48,000-lb. trophy. Franco's favorite finny prey is salmon, but this was far from his first whale. Over the years he has snagged more than 20 of the leviathans, and he has the pictures to prove...
...Time for Marching. Next day, all four were on hand for the skirmishes at Grant Park in front of the Hilton Hotel. Ginsberg had recovered his voice enough to croak and urge the hippies to avoid overexcitement. He proposed combatting the cops with the Hindu charm word Om. Caught off guard, the cops even warmed up to Ginsberg, who, after all, was trying to cool the hippies. "Look after yourself," said a plainclothesman. "There are some wild people in the park today...
...until The Adoration was cleaned in 1937 did Duveen find an expert, August Mayer, who identified it as a genuine Giorgione. The reddish tints, a peculiar softness, the rendering of the grass and small figures in the middle ground, Mayer declared, were all typical of the master's hand. With that, Samuel H. Kress bought the painting. Was Berenson wrong? Perhaps. In later years, even he grudgingly admitted that the painting had been done "in part" by Giorgione. But he refused to yield on his main point that "it was probably finished by Titian...
...intrusion of characters with the dimensions and plausibility of small-town people with small-town attitudes. They are the kind of faceless individuals whom no one notices until one of them murders, or inherits a fortune, or becomes a vice president. A fellow schoolmarm extends a lesbian hand that Rachel shakes off. A visitor (James Olson) "looking for a little action" finds some in Rachel, but he vanishes before she realizes that she has been had. Even her body thwarts her: a swelling in her stomach turns out to be not a pregnancy but a noncancerous tumor...
...which she plans to bring to New York early next month. Although she promises "something new and revolutionary in heels," the fall collection is sure to have the distinctive Ferragamo touch, which means that the shoes will be smart, plain-lined and, except for a few styles, made by hand. Says Fiamma: "Simply designed shoes are the hardest to make, but they sell best and always look stylish...