Word: raying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coming amateur boxer (85 straight victories), Sugar Ray Robinson firmly resolved: "They'll never hold a benefit for me." He pursued the dollar with the same single-mindedness that brought him two world championships-the welterweight (147 Ibs.) and middleweight (160 Ibs.) titles-and carried him through 137 professional fights with only three defeats. By last week, worth an estimated $300,000 from shrewd investments (real estate, a bar, a dry-cleaning establishment), he knew that the time had come to quit. Said Sugar Ray, in a flowery farewell to the ring: "I do not feel...
...church of San Luigi dei Francesi. But this time, aided by the strong artificial light of the Milan gallery, where it was on loan, he thought he saw a vague overlapping of paint surfaces around the fallen figure of St. Matthew. He persuaded government art authorities to X-ray the canvas...
Three months and 96 X-ray pictures later, the experts were able to assemble what looked at first glance like a chaotic triple exposure. Studied closely, the pictures showed that Caravaggio had unmistakably started two earlier versions of his famous painting on the same canvas, and covered them over. The experts isolated parts of ten figures, deduced which of them belonged to each version, and filled them out in painstaking sketches. In a pamphlet published last week, Critic Venturi reported the findings...
...peculiarity of style revealed by the X-ray pictures: Caravaggio never bothered sketching in his figures before painting them; he worked directly with oils. The presence in the early versions of a few headless ears indicates that Caravaggio probably started with an ear when painting heads, using it as a guide in developing the proportions of the rest of the body...
...Ray Milland has the central role and is on the screen throughout the film. His actions did not seem exaggerated as one might expect in a silent film: the only aid to action was in the music. Written by Herschel Gilbert, the score was closely correlated to the goings on and seldom obtrusive...