Word: botticellian
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...world where Botticellian references are fetishized and primary colors are scoffed at, “Patience” may be required. Any Gilbert and Sullivan experience can be slightly overwhelming, but the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players succeed in making Victorian operetta engaging and accessible for a twenty-first century audience. “Patience, or Bunthorne’s Bride,” which ran at the Agassiz Theatre April 3-12, was an ambitious project, but the Players, under director David S. Jewett ’08, engaged the audience from the moment the conductor invited them...
Randall Darwall's set is physically and spiritually perfect. Straight birch trees, thin pillars. How Botticellian! How very Fra Angelican! All in front of an Italian blue sky, with actors in Charlotte H. Prince's costumes of slightly brash, Pre-Raphaelite color. An amygdalaceous show, Gilbert might say. A real peach...
...Francisco and Berkeley, and soon more than 500 nudists each Sunday were wending their way to San Gregorio. "The greatest beach in the world," said one stark-naked Foothill Junior College student, happily surveying the scene. "This is the best incentive I have to stay slim," cried a Botticellian Berkeley coed as she raced into the combing breakers...
Died. Emma Eames, 86, last of the great divas* of the "golden age of opera"; in Manhattan. Famed for the technical excellence of her voice and her "Botticellian" beauty, Soprano Eames sang in French, German and Italian opera at the Metropolitan from 1891 to 1909 with such glamorous colleagues as Caruso, Sembrich, Schumann-Heink and Melba...
Even though the sketches are drawn with the author's powerless member, some of them still are meritorious. Unfortunately, though, they lack the finesse and the draftsmanship that has marked some of the artist's earlier work. The vitality is there, but in subdued form. Dahl's Botticellian touch with the chiaroscuro and his treatment of perspective seem to have suffered during his incapacity. His sure touch at drawing out his subjects' characters with deft touches of his pen stayed with him, it is true, but his sense of color seemed to leave him entirely...
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