Word: riche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...literally that, doesn't suffice even for a first look. But Berenson would be awaiting his visitors at Casa al Dono. Time remained only for a few photographs. The Tuscan light, often over-brilliant, favors subjects admirably. A deep grey light of great clarity pronounced the rich earth colors of the Sassetta-like hills with their patterned bushes. The occasional pieces of white sculpture became phantasmal objects in their arbors of thick foliage. The tall veridian poplars of Piero della Francesa made familiar shapes against the clear...
With Pajama Game, Bells Are Ringing and West Side Story, Jerome Robbins became a director as well as a choreographer. In both roles he remains a recorder of American urban ritual; his dances pulse with the rich, peculiar rhythms of youth on the make, mostly backstage or in back alleys, in the Waste Land as well as Weehawken. This month Manhattan is in the midst of what amounts to a Jerry Robbins festival: by next week his works will hold five stages simultaneously. The American Ballet Theater and New York City Ballet repertories boast Robbins creations; West Side Story...
...contains "gunk" that needs thorough investigation. But Upjohn considers the" project highly worthwhile. Very useful drugs have been found before in unorthodox fashion, e.g., reserpine, the ancient tranquilizer made from India's Rauwolfia plant, which became an antihypertensive drug. A favorable outcome will make Medicine Man Billie a rich...
...Site. After working for a while near Building B, the diggers found the ruins of a luxurious Roman house that seems to have been the mansion of a rich Christian bishop. Under its floor was what they were seeking: a large mass of broken pottery of Lydian manufacture. Nothing like it had ever been found in the Sardis region, so Professor Hanfmann is reasonably sure that he has found the deeply buried site of the Lydian city...
FESTIVALGOERS at Edinburgh are getting a feast i of art such as has been assembled in Europe only twice before in this century. Spread out before them are more than 250 objects covering the whole richness of Byzantine art, from its glowing mosaics to its small ivories, enamels, rich metal work and superb icons (religious images). Rarest dish: a host of icons sent abroad for the first time from great collections in Turkey, Yugoslavia and the U.S.S.R. The total effect is a reminder that for more than a thousand years, from the sack of Rome...