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Reported a TIME correspondent from Milan last week: "The head of Christ has nearly vanished. The faces of Philip and James the Elder appear to be completely corroded and are covered by a layer of saltpetrous calcinate which threatens to spread over the entire fresco. From a few feet away the apostles are an indiscriminate blur. The landscape originally visible in the background has disappeared...
...south, an early frost sparkled on the richly tinted autumn leaves. But as the trees shed their leaves, Japanese shed their kimonos, one by one, to sell for food. They even devised an ironic name for their wretched existence: takenoko, after the bamboo sprout which peels, layer by layer...
...Arctic-conscious U.S. Army has to keep the Frozen North frozen. The reason: beneath much of Alaska, as in other Arctic lands, lies a thick layer of "permafrost," or permanently frozen ground. It is hard and firm, but, as Russians discovered in Siberia long ago, even a trickle of heat can turn it to slithery muck. Roads and airport runways, absorbing summer sun, get as squashy as cranberry bogs. In winter, the warmth of a heated building may seep into the permafrost, allowing floors to sink and walls to wobble drunkenly. Many Alaskan villages, built in defiance of permafrost, look...
Last week Rembrandt's original subject was beginning to shine through again. The Rijksmuseum's restorers had been hard at work for nine months, washing away the grime and varnish, layer by layer, freeing the cool blues, greens and purples, the long-hidden faces. It would take another three months to bring full dawn...
...gave the blushing bride $25,750 worth of prizes and "art fellowships." Served up in Manhattan's stuffy National Academy of Design, "Paintings of the Year" (267 of the 5,034 entries) was a better show than its two Pepsi-Cola predecessors, but it was nevertheless a massive layer cake of second-rate work. On top lay a thin icing of successful...