Word: botticelli
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...unlikely to attract muggers in the scruffy neighborhoods where photographers' studios are often located. What Clotilde and most of the other successful models do a lot of is the misty, haunting Sears catalogue, and what they are paid for is to make polyester look like silk. A face that Botticelli would have admired helps a great deal, and after an hour at the makeup table Clotilde has drawn one on herself, cooked her long brown hair in curlers and As Photographer Watanabe shoots Polaroid stills to test the light and color, Clotilde waits. Like all the real pros...
...medium of television allows him to juxtapose paintings and the real-life images from which they were so clearly derived - automobiles, planes, locomotives, almost anything that meant speed and modernity. Old films and current interviews also add fascinating insights, giving Hughes' series one advantage over Clark's. Botticelli could not be filmed in his studio; indeed, no one even knows what he looked like...
...have lived, she radiates a great and unforgettable purity of spirit. The final scene in this segment is a visual stunner. The rising wind whips the garment about Clytemnestra's knees. Alone, burnt-eyed, she raises an arm as she watches the Greek fleet under full sail, a Botticelli Venus transformed into the mater dolorosa...
...girls are led up the rock by Miranda. She is the loveliest among them. The Frinch schoolmistress compares her to a Botticelli angel as she jumps a stream and disappears between some trees, leading her classmates toward oblicion. They remove their black stockings and shoes to feel the rock on their bare feet. They fall asleep languidly on the warm rock, awaken, and drowsily walk away from the world...
Gazing down from the ceiling of the art-and antique-filled office in Los Angeles' Century City is an oversized, backlighted color transparency of a Botticelli Venus. Sitting below the goddess of love in a thronelike chair, once owned by Rudolph Valentino, is Marvin Mitchelson, a divorce lawyer who has made millions off love gone wrong in Hollywood. Since the mid-1960s, Mitchelson, 50, has piled up a long list of financially rewarding victories in celebrity divorce battles, sometimes representing big- name clients (Rhonda Fleming, Connie Stevens, Red Buttons) but more often fighting for the showfolks' spouses. Among...