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...paintings and a gang of hijackers who gas crew and passengers and slip down below the altitude where radar can track the craft. Then they fly it smack into the ocean. The thing sinks but does not flood, thanks to some watertight compartments Stewart has thoughtfully provided for his artwork. Everyone behaves predictably. Pilot Jack Lemmon is valiant and resourceful, older character people like Olivia de Havilland and Joseph Gotten are stoic and gallant, while the hysteric (Lee Grant) is hysterical...
...Kitten or any of the other animals in the watercolor menagerie of Beatrix Potter. The writer was a victim of Victorian repression -she did not leave home until the age of 47-and her prose is marked with arch names and marred with punishments for the nonconformist. Her artwork is another matter: from childhood, Beatrix commanded a delicate palette and an irrepressible whimsy. Her meticulous brushwork animated an entire barnyard world. The early Disney derives from her fantasies. So do the shenanigans of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck -as well as the anthropomorphic enchantments of many current children...
...living room, an upright piano in the foyer and a small, cluttered study downstairs, with pictures of cherished stars of the past like Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable. The ceiling of her bedroom is painted sky blue, with puffy white summer clouds-her brother Richard's artwork. In the back there is a small swimming pool, beside which stand a 6-ft. metal robot, a souvenir from one of her TV specials, and a stone statue of a naked maiden-wearing a wig and sunglasses. Out front is a 1955 Dodge Royal Lancer. One of the ugliest cars ever...
...Fogg's artwork "provides an opportunity for aesthetic experience and...scholarly research," Konrad Oberhuber, Curator of Drawings, said last week. Yet the museum suffers from a chronic lack of space, keeping 90 per cent or more of the collection squirrelled away on storage shelves. While scholars have access to this material, most students never have an opportunity to work with the bulk of the collection. In addition, the museum must at times turn down gifts of art work that might prove valuable to students because of space constraints. Although the number of donations to the museum varies each year, with...
...Conservation department performs two types of restoration: structural and aesthetic. Structural restoration involves a thorough overhaul of a piece of artwork in a seriously decayed state, while aesthetic restoration generally involves only minor facelifts to improve the appearance and beauty of the object...