Word: neared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This Be Me?" asked Cinemactress Sophia Loren in Hearst's Sunday-supplement American Weekly. Telling all in girlish, ghost-ridden prose, the sultry actress offered a first-person glimpse into how a poor, tomboyish beanpole from a little Italian town near Naples eventually blossomed into a bosomy international movie star. Life was hard in the slums, hardest of all when young Sophia learned that Mom and Dad had never married. "A shadow had fallen across my tiny world. Suddenly I was insecure." But a girl friend's advice helped: "I held my head high and my body erect...
...much as $15,000 for a pair of concerts (in the Hollywood Bowl). This year Van stands to make $125,000 from concerts. TV appearances and recordings. His RCA Victor recording of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1, since its appearance in midsummer, has consistently hovered at or near the top of the LP sales charts alongside Johnny Mathis and South Pacific; by year's end it may well sell close to 1,000,000 copies, not too far behind the alltime LP bestseller. Elvis Presley's Elvis (1,500,000 copies...
...documentation that a marble Cosimo had indeed been carved by Cellini. A memorandum written by Cellini one year before his death in 1571 itemized his marble work, including the Apollo and Narcissus rediscovered in Florence's Boboli Garden in 1940, a polished marble Crucifix now in the Escorial near Madrid, a bust of the Duchess Eleanora (still lost), and a marble bust of Cosimo. The inventory of Cellini's studio taken after his death also listed the Cosimo, noting that it was unfinished...
...mounting excitement he dated the marble, through ultraviolet examination, as from the 16th century. The workmanship, he found, was Renaissance in character. A few details-unsmoothed caliper marks on the cheeks, one wing of the Medusa head on Cosimo's armor -seemed unfinished. Otherwise the statue was in near-perfect condition...
...foreign school. They soaked in "the golden glow of Rome," tingled to the spirit of Paris that "sped up the spin of idea and image." James Harvey in Egypt quarried into Coptic and Islamic art, felt that "through these art forms one sees the landscape of the Near East." Daniel Dickerson painted dhoti-clad Indians in a Rajasthan marketplace, tired porters in a Bangalore railway station...