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...nightmare. First, you woke up after the 13th roommate they'd put into your Currier House triple rolled over on top of you. And since you were already awake, you figured you'd go down to the Coop to pick up the books for your science course...
Some works are beyond restoration and can only be stabilized. The most famous of these is Cimabue's 13th century Crucifix, which had been moved back to its original home in Santa Croce from the Uffizi shortly before the flood. The water took off more than 75% of its paint surface and, the restorers found, would have stripped more had Cimabue not had the nails countersunk and covered with tiny wooden plugs. Exposed, they would have corroded, ruining more paint. Until 1969, the surviving pigment was too soft to touch; then it was painstakingly removed and cleaned. Soon...
Three Eyes. A curiosity of this process, kept on view in the laboratories as a sort of talisman, is an 18th century Madonna which, on patch cleaning, turned out to have a 17th century version under it. When that in turn was tested, the restorers found a 13th century Madonna by the so-called "Master of the Magdalens" beneath. The final palimpsest, a Virgin with three eyes, two noses and a pair of bambini (see opposite, lower right), was playfully christened "Picasso's Madonna...
...pocked with other visible signs of support for the World Series. Most of the major businesses sport World Series posters in their display windows. Some integrate the World Series with their own advertising. "Relax here after the game World Series fans," the marquee for the Bavarian Lounge on 13th St. suggests. It is a typical Omaha response to the event...
THURSDAY: Alexander Nevsky. (1938) Sergei Eisenstein's epic of 13th century warfare in Russia scarcely veils its gung-ho John Wayne-style plumping for Josef Stalin and his then-tough policy towards Hitler's Germany. CH.2...