Word: artfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Saul L. Chafin, chief of University police and a sergeant in the department, travelled to London. England late last week to accompany a collection of 16th century Persian miniatures from the British Library to the National Gallery of Art in Washington...
Diaghilev, By Richard Buckle (Atheneum. $22.95): For the same price you can take Amtrak--one way--to New York and see the Diaghilev exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. But what then will you put on your coffee table? Though it makes a great living room conversation-piece, Buckle's work is also a splendid introduction to the Diaghilevian/magnificence on which much of Russia's cultural accomplishments in the first third of this century were based...
...ART'S SUPPOSED to hold a mirror to nature, but when a play sets actors portraying actors, the theater can turn into a house of mirrors. Resonances and multiple entendres give performers a chance to show off and audiences the opportunity to smile knowingly. George Kaufman and Edna Ferber's durable comedy doesn't make too much of this complexity, not nearly as much as some other plays in the genre, like David Mamet's A Life in the Theater. The Royal Family sticks closely to the bustling, three-act comedy formula that Kaufman and his collaborators used...
Other performers in the show, too, seem like those good, dependable singers who know their art but whose voices go a little flat on the high notes. Alison Carey's Gwen--the youngest Cavendish, who's torn between love and the stage--gives a fine performance except when called upon, in the ineptly-written love scenes or her own renunciation of a stage career, to display excesses of emotion. Rounding out the clan, Michael Cantor's Anthony--the rake of the family, who sold out to Hollywood--hams his way through his part with plenty of panache but without some...
...Protestants in the Ukraine are a divided minority, while the Orthodox Church seems to be thriving. Orthodoxy's well-being is partly the result of a new nostalgia for the past apparent in the Soviet Union today. Along with all folk art, architecture and antique mementos, there is a great vogue for icons, church music and church history...