Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cover) The Democratic candidate for Gover nor of Pennsylvania is a proudly emotional man. His right fist punches the air, a forefinger lashes out, his face flushes furiously beneath his silver hair. Philadelphia's former Mayor Richardson Dilworth. all atremble, stammers slightly and the savage words about his opponent spill out: "My family on both sides were here long before those robber barons of his showed up. His family sold out their interests in Lackawanna County and then moved out their money . . . This man who claims to be a gentleman . . . this Little Lord Fauntleroy . . . this Ivy League Dickie Nixon...
...Manhattan's National Academy of Design that day in 1894, the U.S. flag flew at half-mast. The artist who had just died was called a "giant," and the academy spared itself nothing to give him a giant's funeral. The casket of silver and velvet was lost among palm leaves and flowers, a bust of the dead man stood on a pedestal, and the grand stairway was draped in black. All this was fitting for an age that loved a good show, but it could not have been more inappropriate for the most unobtrusive of painters, George...
Died. Lieut. General Henry Louis Larsen, 71. a burly, well-decorated (two Navy Crosses, three Silver Stars), leatherneck who fought in virtually every Marine campaign from Belleau Wood to Guadalcanal, wound up in command of all Marine forces in the Pacific and then retired in 1946 to direct Colorado's civil defense; of a heart attack; in Denver...
...days when Marilyn Monroe was just breaking into motion pictures, well before most people had ever seen her fully clothed, Silver Screen and the other fan magazines had already trumpeted her as the "new Jean Harlow" and the "most perfectly proportioned body in Hollywood." Today, a similar but more cultivated promotion campaign in the Sunday supplements and the New Yorker is massing public respect for Luchino Visconti...
...entitled "Strange Suns." Roughly speaking, "Strange Suns" is laid out like a five of spades. A metallic gold disc, about the size of a basketball, is painted in the center. Similarly, four more discs, three orange and one blue, are painted in the four corners. Silver-black oils cover the rest of the surface, stroked on radially with respect to the individual circles, applied to a thickness in direct ratio with its proximity to the circles. The general appearance is, therefore that of five craters of paint. The title, Mr. Rutman explains soberly, came after the work was completed...