Word: welched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Anatomy of a Murder (1959). A terrific film about an Army officer on trial for murder in a small town. Lawyer Joseph N. Welch, who humiliated Sen. Joseph McCarthy in the Army-McCarthy hearings, plays the judge...
Isfahan's artistic flowering began with the reign of the energetic Shah Abbas I, who made it his capital. As Anthony Welch explains in his excellent catalogue, Shah Abbas transformed the traditional Persian arts, previously the province of a tiny, cultivated elite, into a more widely based, commercially successful venture. He was a generous patron, who took a personal interest in the production of anything that added to the glory of his reign. Isfahan was so completely his creation that his corrupt successors did not significantly change the outward shape of his society. Yet their dissipation ate away...
...SEEDS of the dynasty's artistic disintegration had been sown at the very beginning of the century. From the first, as Professor Welch comments, seventeenth century Persian art relied more for its effect on the brilliance of its surface than on the soundness and originality of its conception. Just as the magnificence of Shah Abbas's public buildings masked the growing corruption of the society they glorified, the gold leaf and arabesques of Isfahan's art too often hid hackneyed ideas and careless workmanship. Isfahan fades like a mirage when you try to touch it. Yet, seen from the right...
Difficult Task. A native of Akron, St. Clair graduated from the University of Illinois in 1941 and from Harvard Law School in 1947. During his legal career, he has held an improbable collection of jobs. In 1954 he served on the staff of Joseph N. Welch, whose televised condemnations of Senator Joseph...
...women of the year. The No. 1 spot for 1973 was captured by the self-avowed last of the truly tacky women, Pop Star Bette Midler, because "she looks like she took potluck in a Laundromat." Runners-up were such alleged exemplars of basse couture as Princess Anne, Raquel Welch, Tennis Champ Billie Jean King, Jacqueline Onassis (who has been given a lifetime spot on Blackwell's list), Elke Sommer, Sarah Miles, the Andrews Sisters and Liv Ullmann. Coming in at No. 10 was British Hermaphrodite Rock Singer David Bowie, only the second man in 14 years to make...