Word: photographs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...living in the 20th century. For the first time, France is borrowing culture: existential philosophy from Germany, film making in the laconic U.S. documentary style. The transitional ferment will continue, predicts Brogan, as France has more youngsters than oldsters for the first time in a century. Most striking photograph: Pablo Picasso, bare to the waist and bronzed, with a flower behind his ear, the eternal...
...Papa. Italy is poor, except that it has been left Michelangelo, Raphael and Dante. The Italian's lot is sad, yet he sings in his chains. Italy is a relic of history, says Kubly, yet no people lives more fully and joyfully in the present moment. Most striking photograph: Venice's cemetery isle of San Michele, with hundreds of white crosses under tall cedars, muted in the morning mists off the Adriatic...
Bigger & Bigger. The men started with fragments, then small whole pieces, finding a ready market among crooked and gullible dealers. In 1914, they went to work on their masterpieces-three outsized Etruscan figures. As model for one standing warrior, they used a photograph of a little statue that is now in Berlin's Old Museum. For the big head, they used a small terra-cotta vase-head that-ironically-is now owned by the Met. And for the second standing warrior, they used a photograph of a figure on an Etruscan sarcophagus that the British Museum had bought. Perhaps...
...summarized a subcommittee report labeling McCarthy's charge of Communist penetration of the State Department "a fraud and a hoax" on the U.S. public. Defeated that fall by politically unknown John Marshall Butler, who was actively backed by McCarthy in a gutter campaign featuring a phony composite photograph showing Tydings in apparently friendly conversation with Communist Earl Browder, Tydings won nomination to the Senate in 1956 but withdrew from his last political scrap because of ill health...
Primary objective of the expedition was to photograph the solar corona, an envelope of burning gases around the sun. Three cameras, loaded with ultra-sensitive film, determined the structure of the corona and its polarization...