Word: snaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Defense Mobilizer Gordon Gray granted Idaho Power Co. a fast tax write-off on two Snake River dams (TIME, May 13), he handed public powermen and the Democrats a political grenade. Last week Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver's antitrust and monopoly subcommittee pulled...
Despite its iridescent charm and aura of good breeding, the miniature became a lost art with the advent of the cheaper, more accurate, less demanding photograph. In its presence, one expert ruefully noted, the miniature "was like a bird before a snake: it was fascinated-even to the fatal point of imitation-and then it was swallowed...
...record Bach's six Unaccompanied Suites, long identified as a specialty of ailing Cellist Pablo Casals. Next season Piatigorsky will take a "sabbatical" to pursue two of his other interests-oceanography ("You know what oceanographers do on their vacation? They go in the water") and lizard and snake collecting ("It's extraordinary how intolerant people are about snakes"). But there will still be music. His 19-year-old daughter plays the flute, his 17-year-old son the clarinet, the nurse a flute clarinet, his wife the bassoon. "It is an odd combination," says Piatigorsky, rolling...
...Shan Ho housed the prostitutes of the day. ¶ Ch'iu Ying worked mainly in the painstaking style that dates back to the T'ang Dynasty's General Li. He was scorned for his meticulous style by a Literary Man, who said: "When he painted a snake he could not refrain from adding feet." Perhaps in reply Ch'iu Ying painted his Intellectual Conversation in the Shade of T'ung Trees, which measures nine feet tall. Done in a freer, bolder style, it is a resounding answer to his critics and a masterpiece of brush...
...port and gleaming white apartment buildings, to the walled Arab city of Fez (pop. 180,000) with its ancient university buildings and its twisting casbah streets too narrow for automobiles, to the sprawling desert town of Marrakech (pop. 215,000) where ragged Berbers bring their camels to market, and snake charmers pitch their brown tents in the city square...