Word: orly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rougoor and Oort are not sure how to interpret their observations. They suspect that the hydrogen disk at the center of the galaxy is rich in stars, but they cannot see them. The stars and hydrogen, they say, are presumably held together by gravitation and revolve more or less as...
Died. Gerard Philipe, 36, dashing French film star who was equally at home in farce (Fanfan the Tulip), tragedy (Devil in the Flesh), or existentialist love (The Proud and the Beautiful); of a heart attack; in Paris.
Despite Piet Mondrian, not all Dutch artists are squares. The most noted American abstract expressionist, Willem de Kooning, is Rotterdam Dutch, and his opposite number in Europe, Karel Appel, is Amsterdam Dutch. Last week Appel both enthralled and infuriated the home town with a major retrospective at Amsterdam's...
Boff & Grunt. His frankness interlarded with frenzy and his open face barred with a villainous black mustache, Appel happily plays the abstract-expressionist role. Painting, he says, "is a battle! Boff goes the paint! It explodes! It's an adventure! It's destroying what I've done...
At 72, Brundage is increasingly concerned over the future of his collection, has offered it to San Francisco's M. H. de Young Museum. Last week city officials were debating the conditions of the gift: 1) a $3,000.000 addition to the museum, in the form of an Oriental...