Word: sardinians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wolves, angry-looking bulls, and dainty deer, their legs straight as toothpicks, had also flocked from Sardinian molds, along with warriors in short tunics and horned helmets. Armed with bows and two-handed broadswords, the warriors seemed much bigger than their few inches. They were long-nosed and popeyed, as skinny and fierce as cranes at mealtime...
...Sardinian sculptures were paired off in the exhibition with works by such contemporary trail blazers as Picasso, Archipenko, Braque and Giacometti. The 20th Century sculptures were similar but less meaningful, for while the Sardinian bronzes embodied something of their own culture, the moderns reflected nothing except older and more earnest...
Giovanni Mannu, 37, a careworn Sardinian coal miner with a red mustache, went to bed one night as usual-a poor proletarian who had pledged his faith and taken out a card in Italy's Communist Party. Next day he was rich...