Word: aristocratism
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...past 30 years, Count Balthasar Klossowski de Rola, a French aristocrat of Polish extraction better known by his painting name of Balthus, has been one of the least available major artists in the world. The fame of a star painter, Marcel Duchamp once shrewdly observed, depends on an inflation of small anecdotes. About Balthus, none are in circulation. At 69 he has no public face. When André Malraux made him director of the French Academy in Rome-a post Balthus held for 16 years until his retirement a few months ago-Balthus kept fastidiously to himself even...
...Thracian warrior and his horse were both dead, the aristocrat's head lolling in the ditch, golden breastplate crumpled where the spear had struck, fist clutched tardily, forever, at the hilt of a jewelled dagger...
...village, Christchurch, which is about 100 miles southwest of King's Langley.) In any event, Carter's onetime countrymen are delighted to find that the President of the U.S. is to the manor born, sort of. Says Brooks-Baker: "The English always wanted Carter to be an aristocrat...
Died. Count Carl Gustaf von Rosen, 67, swashbuckling, humanitarian Swedish aristocrat; of gunshot wounds suffered during a surprise guerrilla attack; in Gode, Ethiopia. Von Rosen's daredevil "mercy" missions, which eventually spanned four decades and four wars, first brought him hero status during the 1936 Italian invasion of Ethiopia. The count once declared: "I was born in a castle, the son of a millionaire, and they tried to bring me up as a noble gentleman. But I was always naughty, always in trouble...
...lightened hair for his role as a young steelworker in The Deer Hunter, now being shot on location near Pittsburgh. That must be it: De Niro does not look like De Niro. But then neither did the flat-out dumb baseball catcher in Bang the Drum Slowly, the moody aristocrat in 1900, the murderous psychopath in Taxi Driver, the elegantly upholstered movie mogul in The Last Tycoon, or the jazzed-up saxophone player in the newly released New York, New York. For that matter, none of these characters looked much like another-except for the aura of intensity under tight...