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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spendable resources. They bought widely, and sometimes competitively with one another. In the space of a generation, Andrew Mellon, P.A.B. Widener, Henry Clay Frick, and lesser financial titans transformed the U.S. from a cultural have-not to a treasure house of great art that could rival Europe's best (see color pages...
...Church of the Advent. Meanwhile she kept buying pictures, and putting her servants on short rations so that she could do it. Her greatest caprice, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, is a Venetian palazzo on The Fenway in the midst of Boston, containing some of the world's best pictures (among them Titian's Rape of Europa...
...full of years and honor, she lives in a Venetian palace, paints her toes and fingers silver, and has her own gondoliers sashed in blue to match her eyes. They call her "L'Ultima Dogaressa." Saarinen's book shows that collectors are people (and not always the best people.) They may not always have known much about art, but America's great collectors bought what they liked. Nearly all bequeathed what they bought to U.S. museums. Thus, in Author Saarinen's words, "their private possessions have become public pleasures...
Unhappily, Charlotte's husband (Dan O'Herlihy), a college professor who is usually summed up by those who know him best and like him least as a "stuffed shirt," feels pretty much the same way. He has long since fallen out of love with his wife, but he is glumly prepared to make the best of a bad bargain. After all, a divorce would undoubtedly be harmful to his career. So he sleeps in another room, and punishes her in a thousand small unconscious ways for giving him a guilty conscience, and for keeping him from the woman...
...family so viciously irrational that the moviegoer may find himself confused about which belfry the bats are really in. But as played, the film is often a remarkably intense and intelligent study of close relationships-the rare sort of drama that demonstrates how soap opera at its best can bear a true and moving resemblance to life at its worst...