Word: senting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last January, over lunch in Manhattan with visiting Louvre Chief Curator Germain Bazin, TIME editors began laying the groundwork for a comprehensive report on the Louvre and its great collection, to be keyed to a two-volume study of the museum being published this year. Photographer Eric Schaal was sent from Switzerland to take color photos of the Louvre masterworks, found himself up against rigid regulations limiting photographers to two lights (of not more than 250 watts) at a distance of more than ten feet. To make faithful reproductions of the paintings, Schaal worked long hours at night...
...House passed, 345 to 12, and sent to the Senate the long-awaited Administration bill to soften the McMahon Act's atomic secrecy provisions. Under the bill the Administration would have discretion to tell any NATO ally the latest facts of the size and destructiveness of nuclear weapons, could also pass along, subject to congressional veto, nonnuclear components of atomic weapons for arming by the U.S. in the event of war. Any ally that had made "substantial progress" in its own atomic weapons program (i.e., Britain), subject to the same veto, could receive actual weapons designs, nuclear materials...
Then she decided. Under her headdress she let her shaved hair grow a bit; from material sent in by friends she secretly stitched herself a skirt and blouse. One night she changed her clothes and mingled with visitors who were leaving the convent. "Buona sera," she nodded to the gatekeeper, and stepped out into the lighted street...
...performed last week, it opened with a stark roll of drums followed by a saxophone drag that sent a line of twelve kids snaking around the stage and into a shoulder-shrugging, foot-dragging pantomime of exaggerated futility known as "The Slop." Deadpanned, stony-eyed, the dancers stalked the stage in chilling isolation, occasionally made wary, shoulder-grazing efforts to come together, then drifted off again into the kind of cool depths no adult can plumb. The audience sat solemn-faced, but greeted the final curtain with a roar of applause...
...proud city-states of Italy, none was more arrogant or belligerent than Milan, the rich capital of Lombardy. The names of its militant warlords, the Visconti and the Sforza, sent chills down the spine of Italy. But in art, Milan has always been looked down upon as a poor cousin by such sophisticated citadels as Venice and Florence. Even today most tourists take a look at the towered Duomo (second largest cathedral in Italy), seek out the faded mural remains of The Last Supper (painted by an imported Florentine, Leonardo da Vinci) at Santa Maria delle Grazie, and hurry...