Word: seenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...With his countryman John Landy, the world's fastest miler, on hand to watch him perform, Australia's Herb Elliott, 19, spun around the fine track at Melbourne's Olympic Stadium in a spectacular 4:00.4. Sure that he had seen his probable successor, retired Champion Landy announced: "Here is the greatest natural runner I have ever seen...
...ambitious experiment: five weekly series-in literature, geography, mathematics, government and music-created and broadcast live from Manhattan by NBC. The cost of $600,000 will be shared equally by NBC and Michigan's Ann Arbor Educational TV and Radio Center. Some of the projected shows, to be seen on weekdays from 6:30 to 7 p.m. for 13 weeks, sound tempting enough to lure plenty of viewers from commercial channels. Items...
...others rushed to see what neither public nor experts had ever seen before. The walls of the gallery were covered with 120 oils and oil sketches, nearly 100 watercolors and drawings, scores of lithographs and etchings. The result was like a window on the birth of abstract art. The early canvases-impressionist landscapes, academic portraits, saccharine fairy-tale scenes-gave little hint of the revolutionary innovations to come. But suddenly (1908) the Bavarian countryside is seen in patches of fiery yellows, blues and greens. By 1910 color is triumphing over form, as a church steeple sways insanely in a polychromatic...
...relief on a post of a temple railing to a four-faced Siva-Linga that once topped the central column of a Hindu shrine, the collection covers more than 15 centuries, together makes up what museum officials unhesitatingly call "the most important group of Indian stone sculptures to be seen outside of India itself...
...rest of this little picture, which despite a clumsy production is probably going to flood the Easter Bunny with zillions of requests for baby bulls, describes the fantastic things the boy does to save the life of his pet. Nevertheless, the moviemakers have seen to it that the picture comes to a bloody climax in one of the most thrillingly realistic bullfights -starring the famous Mexican matador, Fermin Rivera-ever seen in a commercial film. It's great stuff for the youngsters, but apt to be rough on people of more tender years...