Word: mille
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...relatives fighting over his estate discovered him to have a bank account of nearly $35 million. The Indonesian state oil company, Pertamina, has charged in court that two German companies, Siemens and Klockner Industrie, paid Thahir the money in connection with the construction of a $500 million steel mill near Djakarta...
...propensity to contract cancers as the general population, the Department of Energy estimates. While studies on the effects of radiation on South African blacks are not available, figures on North American Indians document a stark reality. The Navajo reservation at Tuba City, Arizona is adjacent to an enormous uranium mill tailing pile. During a six month period in 1980, 63 birth defects were reported in the baby clinic at the local Indian hospital, a large number in a small population...
...story amounts to this: having been booted from school two or three times and having disappointed his father's ambition for him to become a chip off the old block in the medical profession, he became a day laborer in a steel mill and a pit man in a railroad roundhouse. He spent most of his nights drinking "bootleg" liquor at clubs and speakeasies but somehow found enough contacts and friends to get a job with The New Yorker...
...drawing stands out from this group, Head of a Woman, painted in Horta de Ebro of Picasso's lover Fernande. The drawing of crayon and guache shows a discernable change from Mill at Horta, painted in the same summer, as Picasso's style evolves into an increasingly geometrical and manipulative analysis of form. In the catalog, Tinterow explains the formal changes in Picasso's art during this intensely prolific summer. Another especially rich period well-represented is that of the early 1930s. The Studio of 1933 is an intriguing work that Tinterow says is related to Picasso's cubist works...
...alone would make a brilliant volume. Mili offers more. Nobody has photographed dance, theater and performing musicians better than he did. His visions of Florence and Chartres Cathedral are almost enough to make a trip to either place unnecessary. With great compression the book also tells the story of Mill's life from the time he emigrated from Rumania and went to M.I.T. as a skinny teenager, to the journey back to Bucharest 48 years later to visit his mother's grave. Free of the technical gush that sometimes afflicts photographers exposed to print, Mili offers brief notes...