Word: leonardo
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...Santa Maria delle Grazie refectory last week, a crotchety oldster scraped with a surgeon's knife at one of the world's greatest paintings and muttered in annoyance as the tourists clustered around. To the spectators, his knife-wielding seemed the final indignity to the remains of Leonardo da Vinci's famed Last Supper, sorely damaged by 400 years of weather and bungling restorers. Professor Mauro Pelliccioli, 65, knows better. Next month Italy's No. 1 art restorer will finish up his work on the 15th century masterpiece, and one government official has already pronounced...
...been ruined by a bunch of morons." The professor's problem: not only to remove the ages of dirt and mold, but also the layers of clumsy retouching brushed on by past restorers. "It's extremely simple," he says. "You just scratch until you reach the real Leonardo." Then, smiling behind his spectacles, he adds: "The only difficulty lies in knowing exactly when to stop...
Like many another schoolboy, Giuseppe Conte, 16, a sophomore at Rome's Leonardo da Vinci High School, felt misunderstood. He was sure, for instance, that his math teacher had it in for him. He was always prepared, Giuseppe assured his parents, but Professor Renzo Modugno, a crippled war veteran, twisted the questions so he couldn't possibly answer. Last week, when the semester's grades were announced, Giuseppe heard that he had flunked his math. To make matters worse, Professor Modugno humiliated him by announcing that even the failing grade was higher than he deserved. Giuseppe walked...
Carnevali was the man most wanted by Pedro Estrada, the government's burly police boss. Since Estrada's cops killed Carnevali's predecessor, Leonardo Ruiz Pineda, on the streets of Caracas last October (TIME, Nov. 3), Carnevali has been the underground leader of Acción Democrática, the outlawed majority party. A governor and congressman in Acción Democrática's regime, Carnevali was jailed for ten months when the army took over in 1948, then exiled. He studied at Columbia University in Manhattan, later slipped back to Venezuela. Arrested again...
Although, as with Leonardo, there is no limit to Bucky's interests, and no domain he cannot think himself into or out of, many of his most energetic ideas center in how best to shelter the human race. A house is an energetic environment valve because man, the 28-jointed, etc., biped, creates or modifies his environment by the energy he brings to it; it is the house's function to sluice the biped's energy into its appropriate social, sexual, digestive or somnolent modes. In the Fuller terminology, an automobile is a migratory glassed-in front...