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Word: sarcophagi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their trials proceeded in Spain's military courts, the case of the terrorists began to attract international attention. Plastique explosives blasted Iberia offices in Rome and Paris. A bomb threat at the Louvre, the first in the museum's history, sent police hunting through hundreds of Egyptian sarcophagi and Oriental vases. Early last week a delegation of French artists and intellectuals-among them Actor Yves Montand and Leftist Author Régis Debray-flew to Madrid to protest the sentences. They were quickly expelled. Official notes of protest were issued by the European Economic Community and United Nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Executions and a Rush of Protest | 10/6/1975 | See Source »

...result, the set-up of the museum is insane. The most often-heard comment there is "Where did she get all this junk?" Japanese screens crowd the back staircases. Roman sarcophagi mix with Buddhist shrines, are surmounted by Venetian balconies and bordered by Egyptian owls. That portrait of her husband confronts a Botticelli--when Mrs. Gardner bought that painting, the Prince who smuggled it out of Italy almost landed in jail. Her Manets are grouped in one tiny, overcrowded room where they compete with William James's portrait of his literary brother, while an entire long hall is given over...

Author: By Kathy Garrett, | Title: Mrs. Jack's Place | 4/18/1974 | See Source »

What he saw was a glimpse of the world's most legendary treasure: the stupendous array of gold shrines, jewels, portrait masks, gilded pharaonic furniture and sarcophagi that had gone down with Tutankhamen into the dark. It was the first Egyptian royal tomb found almost intact. Tutankhamen's treasure was eventually rehoused in the Cairo Museum. Parts of it made excursions to France, Japan and the U.S. Two weeks ago, the biggest collection of individual Tutankhamen objects -some 50 pieces-ever to leave Egypt went on display at the British Museum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Tutankhamenophilia | 4/17/1972 | See Source »

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