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There are occasional outbreaks on college campuses, recently including North Carolina State at Raleigh, Siena and C.W. Post colleges in New York, Bradley University in Illinois, Kent State in Ohio and Texas Tech in Lubbock. The probable reason: students received vaccine made before 1980, when a lack of stabilizing ingredients sometimes caused vaccine to lose its potency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diseases: Return of the Red Spots ! | 3/13/1989 | See Source »

PAINTING IN RENAISSANCE SIENA, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The ^ gentle, graceful 15th century fragments and miniatures in this scrupulous show offer respite from the brutish reality of modern life. Through March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Jan. 23, 1989 | 1/23/1989 | See Source »

PAINTING IN RENAISSANCE SIENA, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. The gentle, graceful 15th century fragments and miniatures in this scrupulous show offer a respite from the brutish realities of modern life. Through March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Jan. 16, 1989 | 1/16/1989 | See Source »

PAINTING IN RENAISSANCE SIENA, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. The gentle, graceful 15th century fragments and miniatures in this scrupulous show offer a respite from the brutish realities of modern life. Through March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Jan. 2, 1989 | 1/2/1989 | See Source »

...This is seen in the six predella panels the Met has reunited from his early masterpiece: an altarpiece for the Wool Guild of Siena. The clarity and measure of the green architectural frame, with its slender columns and bladelike ribs, in which the theologian Saint Thomas Aquinas kneels in prayer, is like a visual gloss on his own syllogisms. An educated Sienese would have known that Aquinas had the habit of praying before he wrote. In another panel Sassetta showed Aquinas asking Christ what he thought of his book on the nature of the Eucharist, and receiving the approval...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: An Escape to Renaissance Siena 15th century painting is a delight | 12/26/1988 | See Source »

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