Word: royalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nevelson shows are always built around a single theme-last year it was The Forest, the year before Royal Voyage, this year Moon. "I never know my next move," she says, "I just let it happen. When I let my inner vision guide my hands, there are no errors." Said Paris Abstractionist Pierre Soulages of her current show: "It is not only sculpture, it is a whole world." And certainly Louise Nevelson's world is in no way trite or ordinary...
...found himself in the middle of one of the most vociferous of the debates that engross the international museum fraternity: how to light a painting. From the Renaissance to the 19th century, side-window lighting was the principal solution, with now and then a smoking torch to light a royal procession through a gallery. The Louvre's Grande Galerie, begun by Napoleon, introduced the skylight roof on a grand scale, and with it natural overhead lighting-but without bright success. In 1857 London's Victoria and Albert Museum experimented with fishtail gas jets, lighted by a traveling pilot...
...colt Round Table easily won the $156,990 Santa Anita Maturity. At Florida's Hialeah, 1957 Kentucky Derby Winner Iron Liege lugged 124 Ibs., and, even with Hotshot Willie Hartack up, finished second to Happy Hill Farm's Kingmaker, carrying 116 Ibs., in the $30,-650 Royal Palm Handicap...
...just after World War II began, three cruisers of the Royal Navy (Ajax, Achilles, Exeter) sighted a dangerous German raider, the pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee, off the coast of Uruguay, and attacked. They had their nerve. The German was one of the most formidable ships afloat-a fact soon demonstrated. In little more than an hour the Exeter was wallowing out of action. But the other two cruisers, harrying the enemy like sharks at a whale, managed to hit where it hurt. The German commander (Peter Finch) withdrew into the River Plate, and docked at Montevideo. Prodded...
Exhibiting their persistent disregard of perennial protests by Britain's League Against Cruel Sports, Queen Elizabeth II and Queen Mother Elizabeth journeyed to Westacre, by their presence lent royal sanction to a meet of the West Norfolk Foxhounds. With them, and showing an avid interest in the hill-and-daling of the baying pack, were Princess Anne, in corduroy slacks and polo coat, and Prince Charles...