Word: piers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...failing to report a misdemeanor. All that happened back in 1952. Last week, when an examining magistrate declared the case null and void because the statute of limitations had run out, not one "Che hello!" of triumph issued from the Aegean hideaway where Callas is vacationing with Film Maker Pier Paolo Pasolini...
...Luxe was pivotal. It was his first picture of monumental size and the up-rearing early pier of the great bridge of painting that culminated within three years in those extraordinary canvases, Music and the two versions of Dance. Brilliantly, Schneider has hung the three huge paintings, two from Leningrad's Hermitage and the first version of Dance from New York's Museum of Modern Art, in the same hall. There the two rings of dancers confront each other in demonic energy, while between them, on the saturated flat green of the grass, under the deep blue...
...beginning during the first decade of the 20th century, this event has usually taken place in St. Peter's Basilica, a resplendent setting that is unfortunately characterized by slushy acoustics and poor visibility. Centerpiece of the current Vatican construction is a sleek new papal audience hall designed by Pier Luigi Nervi, with well-planned, air-conditioned facilities for 14,000 pilgrims. Once it goes into use, the atmospheric old St. Peter's audiences will fade forever. Last week TIME'S Rome Bureau Chief Jim Bell revisited one to savor the sights and sounds -and smells...
Beyond the beaches and hotels, Gambia offers little in the way of action. Bathurst, the capital, has a scattering of rickety bars, and there is a discothéque, located on a rusty hulk moored to Bathurst pier. The bars draw a splendid selection of the local layabouts, who cadge drinks off the Swedes, and there is hot competition these days for a waiter's job at one of the hotels. Only last year, it seems, a strapping Swedish gym mistress selected one of the Atlantic's diminutive waiters as a husband...
...past the professorship has been held by such men as T. S. Eliot, Igor Stravinsky, Ben Shahn. Sir Herbert Read. R. Buckminster Fuller, and Pier Luigi Nervi. This year the chair is held by Lionel Trilling, the noted critie...