Word: raring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bell tower. Closer inspection, however, discloses some grim hallmarks of the new Russia: armed sentries in a guard tower and a group of prisoners marching off to work. Two unique photos, secretly taken this year and obtained by TIME from a Russian human rights activist, offer a rare glimpse of the thousands of "islands" in the U.S.S.R.'s gulag archipelago...
...Army is keeping the exact location of its shrub secret to protect it from plantnapers. Already, people have been spotted skulking around the Presidio base in search of it. "It's quite a handsome ground cover and would make a nice addition to someone's garden," says Rare-Plant Expert Alice Howard. What will happen if the Sixth Army gets hard pressed? Threatens Howard: "We'll call out the vigilante corps of the California Native Plant Society...
...France's major tourist attractions. Ten galleries displaying some of the country's greatest art treasures were damaged. A huge hole gaped in the floor of a hall devoted to art of the Napoleonic era. Chandeliers lay in a carpet of crystal shards. Rare Louis-Philippe furniture and exquisite ornamental paneling were reduced to matchsticks. Busts of the great men of France's past were broken. Seriously harmed were six paintings of Napoleon, including...
...confesses, "The sole effort of my life [was] to live the life of a normal man." A generation after his death, Albert Camus's Notebooks continually show that the "normal" virtues of courage, of decency, of uncompromising accuracy are, in fact, as vulnerable as great writers - and as rare as great writing. - Stefan Kanfer
...never have been), one might see Mary Frank as a kind of archaic fabulizer, spinning myths about a lost Arcadia of the senses. But the quality of her work disputes that. For all her mannerisms, her sculptures leave the viewer with an exemplary confidence of feeling, an authenticity rare in sculpture today. ? Robert Hughes