Word: mir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under the new system, only publications that genuinely manage to boost sales are allocated more newsprint, which is perennially in short supply. For instance, Novy Mir Editor Aleksandr Tvardovsky last year received more pages for his crusading literary monthly, which keeps irritating party bosses with exposes of social and economic abuses. Even though (or perhaps because) he had been ousted from the Communist Party Central Committee for "revisionism," readership was going up. Mostly, the competitive pressure is causing the papers to shed some of their drabness. Headlines are boxed in color, the number of pictures has increased, the quality...
...mirth, it is also a priceless visual testament to the past. Seeing history in art fascinates Photographer Bradley Smith, who spent two years in Spain taking pictures of more than 235 art works, from the 20,000 B.C. cave paintings of Altamira to the present-day works of Miró and Picasso...
...Joan Mir...
...priests, that was a rocky challenge. They swarmed into Barcelona-many of them wearing zippered windbreakers over their cassocks and roaring in on motorcycles-to challenge the Archbishop on his home ground. To that extent, the clear, Catalán distortion of Joan Miró was more appropriate than Goya. But more than anything, the priests were reflecting the alienation that exists in Spain between age and ambition, between the liberal principles of the Vatican and the rigidity of the Spanish Catholic hierarchy, which automatically aligns itself with the state...
...flower in the textured murals that are sumptuously spread through these pages with such fidelity that the beholder wants to touch them. The book's first three sections explore the history of tapestry weaving, a history still being written by those-among them Lurçat, at and Miró-who have revived this ancient art. The fourth and last section, by François Tabard, master weaver at Aubusson in France, explains the techniques...