Word: thawing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Finding pictures is only half the job. Equally challenging is evaluating and appraising them, which can take nerves of steel and the judgment of Solomon (or Berenson). "One of the most important pictures I ever handled was a late Rembrandt, A Praying Apostle," says Eugene V. Thaw, 42, who deals in European masters, both classic and modern, out of his ten-room Park Avenue apartment. "The painting was signed and dated, and I knew it was a Rembrandt, but something about it bothered me. Experts thought it was one of the artist's less important works, but I thought...
...would come from burying the pipeline in permafrost; no one really knows how the soil would behave. Oil would enter the pipe at a geothermal temperature of more than 100°; pumping and friction would boost that to 180°. As a result, critics charge, the hot oil might create a "thaw bulb" in the permafrost as deep as 50 ft. If the pipe broke, either by sagging into the mush or by being jolted by an earthquake, the aftermath would make the Santa Barbara spill look like a picnic. Critics also fear breaks at the pipe's lowest points: riverbeds. They...
...have to curse, fight mosquitoes, fall over rocks and skin your knees, be stung by nettles, scratched by grasshopper grass and pricked by brambles before you have really experienced the world of nature." He braved winter winds and rainstorms to sketch outdoors. One March day, inspired by a "glorious thaw," he trudged out to a nearby woods and had hardly set up his easel when a thunderstorm came up. "I decided nothing was going to stop my painting." he recalled later, "and hurriedly got my huge beach umbrella and my raincoat. I protected my legs with a portfolio (the wind...
...Needed Thaw. As expected, the Nationalists won last week's elections handily, and will have a two-to-one majority in the new Parliament. But they lost nine seats-not to the verkramptes but to the English-oriented United Party, a timid, ideologically sterile organization that favors token African representation. The tiny, anti-apartheid Progressive Party increased its total vote by one-third, and its lone member of Parliament, the spirited and courageous Helen Suzman, nearly tripled her 1966 lead. By contrast, Hertzog's party failed to win a single seat; all four of its M.P.s were defeated...
...Gradual Thaw. Most important, the pipe-for-gas trade indicates that trade relations between Bonn and Moscow are less and less influenced by the cold war. Seven years ago, the Germans had arranged to sell pipe to the Soviet Union, but the deal was blocked by the NATO strategic-goods embargo. Nikita Khrushchev was so enraged that he thumped his fist on a table and roared: "Even pants buttons can be called strategic goods. How are soldiers to hold their pants up without buttons...