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...feet implacably planted athwart the body of Herod, in symbolic triumph. With the gift of Contini-Bona-cossi's St. Jerome, Florence will have one of the half-dozen finest small Bellinis to be seen anywhere in Europe. Every detail, from the folds of the saint's robe to the squirrel on a branch behind him, was imagined and recorded by Bellini as the concrete signs of God's grace investing the world. Bellini came 50 years before Titian, but 100 years before him Paolo Veneziano demonstrated to Venetians, in works like The Birth of St. Nicholas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sequestered Treasure | 9/14/1970 | See Source »

...Delegates scampered through the hotel lobby in bathing trunks just in time to change for the morning sessions. Thomas Mann's erudite daughter, Elisabeth Mann Borgese, who originated the conference, chatted with Cameroon's U.N. Minister Paul Bamela Engo, resplendent in red fez and flowing blue robe. Justice William O. Douglas, chairman of the conference, strode through the bar with his miniskirted blonde wife in tow. The place was jammed with students in opentoed sandals, bearded scientists, well-tailored businessmen, lawyers and politicians. A star of the meeting turned out to be Arvid Pardo, a sort of superdiplomat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Pacem in Maribus | 7/20/1970 | See Source »

...Acquaintances in Detroit remember Sams as a braggart and a brawler.... They say he packed a revolver underneath a used choir robe that he said was a dashiki. At a rally in West Side Church, the audience giggled throughout a speech by [Stokely] Carmichael because Sams, recruited on stage as a bodyguard, tasted the water from a pitcher to test it for poison and drank...

Author: By Garrett Epps, | Title: The Trial of Bobby Seale | 6/11/1970 | See Source »

...cold feet. "Herbie, I can't," she told her director. "I've got goose bumps and they'll show." While Director Herb Ross coaxed the reluctant nymph, George Segal, who was waiting for her in bed, took a nap. Finally Barbra Streisand tossed off her robe and glided across the set. "Cut and print!" shouted Ross. "Beautiful!" Perfectionist Streisand demanded a retake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 18, 1970 | 5/18/1970 | See Source »

...Acquaintances in Detroit remember Sams as a braggart and a brawler. . . . They say he packed a revolver underneath a used choir robe that he said was a dashiki. At a rally in West Side Church, the audience giggled throughout a speech by [Stokely] Carmichael because Sams, recruited on stage as a bodyguard, tasted the water from a pitcher to test it for poison and drank...

Author: By Garrett Epps, | Title: The Trial of Bobby Seale | 4/28/1970 | See Source »

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