Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...renderings of old crafts are mixed in with the older pieces. They are the culmination of a recent drive to re-learn and preserve the old folk arts. Where a break in the craft tradition has never occurred, the results are most successful--for example, plates and pitchers of iron inlaid with silver from Daghestan, and silver filigree jewelry, from Georgia. Two showcases display the products of lacquer-work masters from Ralekh--little papier-mache boxes, decorated with elaborate designs in egg-tempera (often depicting the exploits of Russian fairy-tale heroes), coated with transparent lacquer, then dried and highly...
...thing is certain: since Italian Dancer Paolo Bortoluzzi left Maurice Béjart's Brussels-based Ballet of the Twentieth Century to join the American Ballet Theater in June, he has caused more excitement in the U.S. than any male dancer since Rudolf Nureyev leaped through the Iron Curtain...
...search for cures for the myriad forms of cancer has taken U.S. researchers to many countries. Now, it is taking them through the Iron Curtain. Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Elliot Richardson announced last week that U.S. and Soviet scientists will exchange anticancer drugs so that each drug may be subjected to full clinical tests in the other's country. As a first step in carrying out an agreement reached during President Nixon's recent visit to Moscow, the Soviets will send the U.S. three drugs, which they have been using to treat cancers of certain white blood...
...Bloody Friday" assault on Belfast (TIME, July 31). Last week British soldiers took the offensive. Discarding the army's "low profile" policy, troops invaded such Catholic strongholds as Belfast's Andersonstown and Ballymurphy districts and rounded up hundreds of men for questioning. Giant bulldozers ripped through the iron-pylon barricades that had marked many Catholic enclaves. In Belfast's narrow Keenan Street, the soldiers discovered a complete bomb factory, 420 lbs. of gelignite, sodium nitrate, detonators and fuse wire...
...Anne II himself, although he had no training in naval architecture and never went beyond ninth grade. From groves on his own farm he cut white pine for her planking, black spruce for her spars, oak for her ribs. He poured the lead for her keel in two old iron bathtubs. One of his brothers made her trapezoidal, gaff-headed sails (no newfangled spinnakers for Kathi A nne). A brother-in-law made her goosenecks, blocks and deadeyes (no modernistic turnbuckles). Spoon-bowed Kathi Anne plowed a fast furrow in the races at Lunenburg Harbor...