Word: silks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...maze - done by students at Los Angeles' Immaculate Heart College un der the direction and guidance of Sister Mary Corita Kent, 49 - is the latest project of the nation's best-known teaching nun. Sister Corita's own vibrant silk-screen serigraphs have been pur chased by leading museums in Europe and the U.S., and last year were exhibited at 150 shows. Versatile and prolific, she did a large serigraph exhibit for the Vatican pavilion at the New York World's Fair, designed advertisements for Westinghouse, and gift wrapping for Neiman-Marcus. Her friends range from...
James Thompson, the Thailand silk millionaire who has been missing since March; of a brutal beating inflicted by an unknown assailant in the bedroom of her mansion 15 miles west of Wilmington, Del. Her death was as mysterious as her brother's disappearance: there was no sign of forced entry, and none of her valuables was missing...
...first evidence we've had that some of South America's high cultures and civilizations developed similarly to that of the Chinese," says Dr. Douglas Fraser, a Columbia associate professor of art history and archaeology. Fraser and most of his colleagues believe the Ch'u Silk Manuscript was "a sacred or special document" that not only contained a philosophical viewpoint on life, but also determined the most auspicious times to engage in a variety of activities, including warfare...
...Communist Chinese, who have mounted massive searches to unearth a manuscript to match it, the Ch'u silk is as important and remote as Taiwan. But Sackler, who paid more for it than the combined cost of his 10,000-piece collection of early Asiatic paintings, sculptures and other artifacts, intends to make infra-red photographs of the priceless manuscript available to scholars everywhere. Including Red China...
...probably still be running." The show closed after 36 performances, and she switched to Graham Greene's Complaisant Lover, which starred Sir Michael Redgrave. In an ingenue supporting role, she made her splash opening night when the elastic of her half-slip gave way. As the silk was heading for the boards, she glided upstage behind a sofa and deftly stepped out of it, thinking she had been unobserved-until the house rattled with applause. Sir Michael dryly recalls "her obvious star quality...