Word: thors
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...spent his entire life there. And even though his name was all but unknown, the painting was recognized as an "extraordinary" landscape (see color pages), purchased by The Hague in 1822, and hung next to a Rembrandt at the Mauritshuis. There, 20 years later, a young French critic named Thoré-Bürger was so struck by it that he decided to set about recovering Vermeer's lost paintings and opening the eyes of the world to the forgotten master from Delft...
Last week Vermeer needed no intro duction. Commemorating the centenary of the publication of Thoré-Bürger's monograph-still the source work on the artist-as well as the 150th jubilee of the Mauritshuis, The Hague has staged an exhibition titled "In the Light of Vermeer" (scheduled to open...
Indecent Exposure. Bengt Danielsson is no art critic but an anthropologist who accompanied Thor Heyerdahl's 1947 Kon-Tiki expedition to Polynesia, succumbed to the charm of the South Seas and moved his family to Tahiti in 1956. There he bumped into the legend of Gauguin, who spent his last years in Tahiti and in the nearby Marquesas and whose grave on Hiva Oa Island surveys the Pacific. Danielsson soon discovered what was for him an astonishing fact: none of Gauguin's many biographers had ever bothered to measure the legend in the place where so much...
Patterson has not fought a good fight since the second bout with Ingemar Johansson. The fast, instinctive combinations that buried the Hammer of Thor are gone. Floyd went into both Liston bouts with a rigid pre-fight strategy -- indicative of a nature that has no place in the ring...
...eleven months' work, touches very little on technological activities. Secretary Zuckert credits Aerospace with guiding the development of the Titan III and Minuteman II missiles; Air Force Systems Commander General Bernard A. Schriever says that its engineers saved $100 million by improving the reliability of Atlas and Thor boosters. Aerospace has grown to be the 45th largest defense contractor, in the course of working on $309 million in military contracts has collected $15.9 million in fees. What seemed to bother the investigators was how the taxpayers' money was disposed of, largely in ways that have made the company...