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Word: lisa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...late starter. He barely squeaked through high school, then drifted ("I just liked to draw") until he was 19. One day he dropped his shyness long enough to go right up to a pretty girl in the street and ask for a date. Recalls his wife, Ana Lisa: "I was waiting for a trolley. It was really all a surprise." The fact that his future father-in-law was a contractor gave Niemeyer the idea of entering architecture school, but he did not have the necessary credits. So, he says, "I played soccer, went fishing and swimming, learned jujitsu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Architect of Brasilia | 7/28/1958 | See Source »

Strolling over the Louvre's polished parquet floors, Bazin likes to philosophize on two great portraits. Titian's Francis I (who seems to be examining the jewel of his collection, Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa) and Hyacinthe Rigaud's Louis XIV (loftily surveying the great expanse of the 300-yard-long Grande Galerie). Both have a right to their proprietary air. Bazin feels, since, along with Napoleon, they are among the Louvre's greatest benefactors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Masterpieces of the Louvre: Part I | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

Dear Child. In Alexandria, Va., Lisa Norling, 2, playing with a telephone dial, accidentally made a connection, held an animated conversation with the man on the other end until her father took the phone, learned that his daughter had direct-dialed a number in Sacramento. Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 12, 1958 | 5/12/1958 | See Source »

...largest number of people getting a higher education? Answer: the Soviet Union. What country sent the first Sputniks into the cosmos? Answer: those were Socialist Sputniks. Who wants to overtake whom in science? Answer: the U.S. would like to overtake the Soviet Union." Then, looking down at LIFE photographer Lisa Larsen, he added: "But don't misunderstand me. There is an American girl standing in front. There may be other Americans, too. I don't want to hurt anyone's national feelings. Americans, British-all are good people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Is That Bad? | 4/21/1958 | See Source »

...running, watery green light, and the Commendatore (no longer cumbrously on horseback) glowed dimly through the iron grille of a crypt, like a sea creature in a grotto. Through the mellow moonlit streets moved the kind of cast only a great opera house could muster: Cesare Siepi, Eleanor Steber, Lisa Della Casa, Roberta Peters, Cesare Valletti, Giorgio Tozzi, Fernando Corena, Theodor Uppman, all in top form...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dazzling Don | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

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