Word: bacchanalia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turn of the century, Von Stuck was Germany's most fashionable painter, earning the equivalent of $250,000 a year. His slickly lecherous nymphs and centaurs were snapped up by wealthy industrialists, his portraits commissioned by royalty, and his banquets were compared to Roman Bacchanalia. Von Stuck's million-mark palazzo, begun in 1896, fell into decay after his death in 1927, but an aging daughter lived amid the ruins until 1961. Opened last month as a Jugendstil museum, the Stuck-Villa pays its way by housing four art galleries in its annex, a modern-art museum upstairs...
Spectator Sex. To some visitors, the trap door and the glass wall are the real symbols of Hugh Hefner's achievement. Bacchanalia with Pepsi. Orgies with popcorn. And 24 girls?count 'em, 24?living right overhead! Not to mention all those mechanical reassurances, like TV and hifi. It is all so familiar and domestic. Don Juan? Casanova? That was in another country and, besides, the guys are dead. Hugh Hefner is alive, American, modern, trustworthy, clean, respectful, and the country's leading impresario of spectator...
Nothing to Chance. For all his discipline, Poussin was in no sense a stony prude or a bloodless geometrist. He reveled in depicting bacchanalia where swarthy satyrs lurched after alabaster-skinned nymphs, and chubby putti chugged wine as if it were rosy Pablum -all composed as carefully as a ballet. In his Rape of the Sabine Women (see opposite page), swords and outflung arms set up triangles that play a counterpoint against the squarish architecture. Nothing is left to chance, not even the suggestive but studied pas de deux of the Sabine maidens and their Roman abductors...
...presume you don't claim originality for those guys and dolls, who do not even have a word for it. The Greeks had a word-orgy. So did the Romans-bacchanalia. Even the underdeveloped Brazilians have a cute word-suruba. In the '30s, I took part in similar divertissements with graduate students of Buenos Aires University; de rigueur attire for the young ladies was a lettuce leaf kept in place with a glob of whipped cream...
...Victor). For his first recording with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, new Conductor Jean Martinon chose flashy and familiar works-two Dionysian ballets by fellow Frenchmen. Orchestra and conductor show up well, from the airy pianissimos that signal the break of day in the Ravel to the wildly pounding bacchanalia that climax the Roussel...