Word: hung
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Below them, less than 70 miles away, lay a desolate, pock-marked landscape. In the black sky above hung a half-disk -the earth-its blue and brown surface mottled by large patches of white. Thus, incredibly, they were there, precisely where the mission planners had predicted, finally living the dreams of untold generations of their ancestors. In orbit around the moon and 230,000 miles farther away from home than any humans had ever before traveled, the Apollo 8 astronauts conveyed impressions of their pioneering adventure with words that at times were poetic. Their telecasts gave earthbound viewers...
...shipments and therefore insist that aid be shipped in under their supervision. The Biafrans reject such terms because they fear foul play by the federals. The U.S. has been distressed by the Biafrans' plight, but it wants to see Nigeria survive as a unified nation; so Washington has hung back from overt aid. U.S. Government relief-$17 million to date-has been channeled through private and religious organizations...
...Well, probably not in the sense that Matthew Arnold demanded of "high seriousness." It certainly cannot be hung on a wall or stood in an alcove. But it is gay, handsome, inventive, and it is at least as much fun to look at as most of the work in contemporary galleries. As for its authors, they are inspired by their own success. Edelmann is now thinking about animating J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy, with its enchanted landscapes, gnomes and elves. "Animation is an extension of painting, because it adds the element of time...
Ponelle, fortunately, has had better luck with his other works. At the age of 36, he is the most sought-after set designer and director for theater and opera in Europe. Last week, at the opening of the La Scala opera season in Milan, his latest paintings hung as backdrops for his own new production of Verdi's Don Carlos. Ponelle's dark, brooding sets, painted on black velvet to emphasize the somber mood of the drama, suggested El Greco canvases come to life. The naturalistic direction he gave to the expert cast assembled by Conductor Claudio Abbado...
...Jordaens for the first time. Britain's Michael Jaffé, a Rubens scholar who assembled the show, perused the world's great treasure houses, ended by reat-tnbuting no fewer than 30 paintings and some 70 drawings to Jordaens. Among them is a princely portrait that had hung for 108 years in Scotland's Rossie Priory labeled "General Velasquez by Rubens." Another, portraying the infant Bacchus, Jaffé pulled from a musty storeroom in Warsaw's National Museum...