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...such economies that give Lutece with its four dining rooms the air of a simple country bistro -- an aura that appeals to some, but not to others. The most decor-conscious shun it, but it attracts many celebrities such as Jack Lemmon, Woody Allen and Bill Blass. Says Blass: "I love it because it has great food and because it is a bistro. I like to stop at the kitchen window and talk to Andre about what we will eat. I also like not having to jump up and embrace someone every other minute, and I like seeing...
...with three shots in the season finale for both teams last Saturday in Potsdam, N.Y., Meitner single-handedly stripped the aura of invincibility away from the Crimson...
Nine years out of office, Kissinger has maintained a luster rarely matched by any former Secretary of State since Martin Van Buren made the leap to the White House in 1837. Even without his Air Force jet, Kissinger travels with the aura of power. He alerts the embassies. Bodyguards watch over him. The maid at London's posh Claridge's covers the floor with towels because Kissinger, she says, does not like to walk barefoot on hotel carpets. Arriving in Paris, Kissinger is invited to the Elysee Palace for a chat with President Francois Mitterrand; in Peking, Deng Xiaoping suggests...
...often did, that these works imitated Oriental calligraphy. The calligrapher's white paper is always neutral, a void, whereas Kline wanted his whites to be seen for what they were--blocks and patches of pigment, as painted as the blacks. Moreover, he disliked the word's pseudospiritual aura. Those black strokes were the residue of a tough, specific place, one to which David Smith's sculpture also appealed: a world of trestles and girders, piers and railbeds and X braces, of sooty industrial silhouettes and locomotives highballing through the lonesome American dark...
...bitter past to England; and even less that its various corporate underwriters would want their coffee, cars and airliners associated with Nazi imagery. So those flaxen-haired Madchens, village scenes and straining athletes are fated to crouch in the basement of art history, invested with a diabolic aura that in the light of common day would shrivel. They may be sodden kitsch, but to claim they are not a significant part of German cultural history is wishful thinking...