Word: artfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sofu was made a chevalier of the Legion of Honor). Last week in Tokyo he formally opened his school's eleven-story headquarters building, designed by Japanese Architect Kenzo Tange. It overlooks the palace of Crown Prince Akihito, whose family has traditionally been a patron of the flower art...
Ikebana has been entwined in Buddhism almost since the religion was introduced to Japan in the mid-6th century; it started with floral offerings laid at the altars. Sofu has made it a highly secular art and brought it into the age of abstract expressionism. His Grass Moon school has gone beyond the simple (but stunning) classical ikebana arrangements of a bent twig and a dewy blossom arrayed in a water vase or a bamboo tube. In containers that may be ceramic sculptures or Chinese wine kegs, Sofu will blend the blooms with shells, stones, iron, leaves, driftwood, dried grass...
...even more surprisingly, kept at it for three years. At 15, he wrote a life of Rembrandt. The chief works of Lugt's maturity, especially the great catalogues of Rembrandt and early Netherlandish drawings he compiled for the Louvre, are as basic to the study of Dutch art as Bernard Berenson's lists are to that of Italian...
...credits are interesting only because they show that the best people, working with priceless material, can make mistakes, and Royal Heritage is more often than not a royal bore. The art work is generally not shown to advantage, Wheldon is a lackluster narrator, and the phalanx of royals should have been marched by in double step instead of lingering for a chat...
...cookie," says Pearl Bailey, who calls herself "more of a philosopher than an entertainer." At 59, Bailey has decided to get a college diploma, and enrolled last week at Washington, D.C.'s Georgetown University, where she plans to major in French and squeeze in classes in Islam, Egyptian art and philosophy. Drama is out, she says, because "I took it 40 years of my life." At registration, she was presented with front-row seats to school basketball games-and a book of freebie burger coupons...