Word: versions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nowhere perhaps is this more vividly seen than in his 1896 version of The Sick Child (see color pages), a marvelously sensitive evocation of his elder sister Sophie, who died of tuberculosis when Munch was 14. In fact, the lithograph of The Sick Child is essentially a detail from a larger oil that Munch had painted some ten years before. The painting showed the child upright against a pillow, with her aunt, head bowed, next to her, but the lithograph zeroes in on "the trembling lips, the transparent skin, the tired eyes" that had inspired him in the first place...
Elated by the results, NASA has ordered the construction of a flight-test version of Whitcomb's wing. At Edwards Air Force Base in California, the wing will be mounted on a modified F-8 jet-fighter and will undergo test flights in the summer of 1970. If the performance measured in Langley's wind tunnel is duplicated in flight, a new generation of more efficient subsonic jets may soon be cruising major U.S. air routes at speeds as high as 645 m.p.h...
Feinting and fighting, the two engage in their own mixed-up, microcosmic version of the war. The Japanese occupies the beach, the American the jungle, in a skirmish that seems to last longer than the Battle of Guadalcanal. Bereft of conventional weapons, the pair have at each other with sticks, fire, traps and maledictions. To no avail. Predictably, the hunters learn that they cannot survive without their quarries. Without speaking a word of each other's language, the odd couple eventually construct a raft and go off in search of rescuers. Stranded again on a different island, they find...
...newest version, Verdon has been replaced by a carrot-topped Shirley MacLaine, whose wide-screen pathos and galvanic energy does not quite match her predecessors'. Most of the other essentials remain the same. Sleazy customers steal in on little cad feet; for $6.50 an hour Charity hustles them around the dancehall floor-and sometimes into bed. A born romantic-hence the heart tattooed on her arm-Charity continually falls for Mr. Wrong. A leeching gigolo gloms her purse; a narcissistic movie star (Ricardo Montalban) invites her up to his apartment and forces her to be a voyeuse while...
THIS WEEK'S SNOWSTORM could have easily been scripted by French playwright Jean Anouilh. Sunday night, Act I, everything transformed--fences, archways, and street signs--into a campus-wide version of Zhivago's ice palace. But, over the next two days, the scene changed as the snow melted into sluggish tears, the tears turning into rivers of slush and mud. By mid-week and the final curtain, all had frozen. Ice. The trees--their branches torn and crippled and frozen--stood out in painful ugliness against a threatening...