Word: shows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...show in Washington is by no means the first occasion that TIME's covers have gone on public display. The magazine has conducted a number of tours of its cover art, both in this country and overseas, and the U.S. International Communications Agency is now sponsoring a show that has appeared in Europe, the Middle East and Asia...
Says Sadik: "Both the magazine covers and our own portraits show people who have had the strongest impact on American life. Both, in other words, tell history-and that's where they can meet." Sa dik also believes that TIME's covers are contributing to a revival of portraiture. "In the first decade of the 20th century, art went abstract, and representational portraiture became declasse," he explains...
...selection of TIME portraits, including some notable photographs that went on display last week recalled the era since World War II. From the '50s there were such memorable figures as Frank Sinatra (Aug. 29, 1955), gangling and youthful in his prime as the hottest entertainer in show business; an earnest Adlai Stevenson (July 16, 1956), struggling in vain a second time to reach the presidency; and Martin Luther King (Feb. 18, 1957), then, at 28, a minister just beginning to lead the fight for civil rights...
...penchant for mischief. He once sent classmates at Cheam into a frantic search for the right-sized headgear when he switched their unmarked school caps around on a wall of name-plated pegs. His sense of the zany owes much to a long devotion to the Goon Show, an innovative British radio comedy program of the 1950s whose routines he has memorized. He often emulates the show's outrageous punning style. (Sample royal groaner, after a dogsled ride in Canada: "That just sleighed me.") He loves to deflate Establishment airs, and once showed up to address a banquet...
...royal role. There is no clearly defined job for a Prince of Wales. It is a question of what you make of the position. I believe that it is best to confine myself to three basic aims at the start-to show concern for people, to display interest in them as individuals, and to encourage them in a whole host of ways...