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With her teammates looking on and the adrenaline pumping, both her diminished prospects and conservative game plan went out the window...
...retrospect, Bingham can be excused for concluding that Machu Picchu was the holiest of Incan sites. Its inaccessibility certainly suggested that. So did some of its apparently religious structures, which were built with distinctive three-window designs, evoking the legend that the Incan people were created by three brothers who appeared through a trio of portals. And the large percentage of uncovered skeletons that Bingham's expert determined to be female suggested the remains of an Incan nunnery...
...then, all conventions were out the window. The introduction of the birth control pill on May 9, 1960, had unleashed the sexual revolution. Pope John XXIII led an ambitious attempt to modernize the Roman Catholic Church when he convened Vatican II on Oct. 11, 1962. The Beatles heralded not only a change in music but also the arrival of the youth movement when they appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show on Feb. 9, 1964. By Aug. 15, 1969, the revolution was in full swing when thousands of young people gathered in upstate New York for the Woodstock festival...
...doubled to €102 billion, due more to falling imports than rising exports. But that's better news than in the U.S., where the trade deficit hit a record $435 billion. THE BOTTOM LINE 'We no longer serve French fries. We now serve freedom fries.' Sign on the window of Cubbie's restaurant in Beaufort, North Carolina, as an informal American boycott of all things French starts to hit below the belt
...read about Impressionism, too, but imagined it to be simply the use of lighter tones. In Paris he discovered such older painters as Monet and Pissarro, and met the young avant-garde of the day: Toulouse-Lautrec, Seurat, Signac, Gauguin, Bernard. His old palette went out the window ("Last year I painted almost nothing but flowers," he wrote in 1887, "so I could get used to colors other than gray.") He experimented with Impressionist brushstrokes and pointillist "stippling" - one superb gallery here pairs off Monet's Boats on the Beach, Etretat with Van Gogh's dappled Woodland Path...