Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...upper Nile (opposite page, bottom) broke with tradition. Like many late Pompeian artists, he found a sketchy, exaggerated, caricaturing approach best suited to his age. His somewhat bloodthirsty and hurried cartoon seems remarkably contemporary in the 20th century - it might almost be mistaken for a panel from a. comic strip. The similarity is probably no accident. Things were speeding up around Pompeii. Even resort life was getting pretty hectic. Old standards were being abandoned, the new was hastily sought, and there was a sense of permanent danger in the air. The gods, speaking through Mt. Vesuvius, had begun to grumble...
...plural marriage, have gone on springing up in out-of-the-way corners of the Southwest ever since. Back in the '30s half a dozen renegade Mormon fundamentalists and their women trekked into one of the wildest and loneliest areas left in the U.S.-the unpoliced, almost uninhabited strip of tumbled, gorge-cut Arizona desert north of the Grand Canyon. They settled there at the little shack town of Short Creek, beneath high red cliffs named the Towers of Tummurru...
...liquor inspectors, five police matrons, six welfare workers, three judges, the attorney general and three assistants, and squads of reporters and cameramen. They set out in two motorized caravans. One string of cars swung into Nevada and Utah to approach from the north; the other cut across the Arizona strip to hit Short Creek from the east. An eclipse of the moon cloaked their movements. But as it turned out, the Short Creekers knew all about the raid, and had stationed boys along the road to shoot off dynamite and thus announce its arrival...
Anyone Can Win (alternate Tues. 9 p.m., CBS-TV) has as many electric score-keeping gimmicks as a pinball machine, and features Cartoonist Al Capp as a wisecracking moderator who fires questions at a guest panel, including a mystery guest disguised as one of Capp's comic-strip characters (currently Hairless Joe). The show has a particularly noisy studio audience because each member holds a ticket with the name of one of the four panelists, and the backers of the winning contestant divide $2,000. Sponsor: Carter Products (Little Liver Pills, Rise, Arrid...
...work: a dramatic series of three small (the largest, 19¼ by 25 in.) panels from a 15th century altarpiece showing Christ's Agony in the Garden, The Betrayal of Christ and the Procession to Calvary. Together the three paintings make up the only Sassetta predella (i.e., a strip of paintings along the base of the altar), in the U.S., and it was something that took the museum almost 30 years to acquire...