Word: botticellis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...M.P.s assemble, they appear to be pillars of rectitude. Their clerk is another matter. Maddie Gotobed (Cecilia Hart) has the body of a Botticelli. She is slow at speed writing but has fast friends in high places. Some are right here in the committee chamber. As Maddie's blue scanties emerge from the M.P.s' briefcases at inauspicious moments and whip through the air like naval pennants, it is clear that whatever the Prime Minister's electoral problems may be, Maddie has carried the House...
...particularly influenced by the way they were composed on a horizontal-vertical grid. "He wasn't using diagonals. I hate diagonals!" The effect shows in works like Rebus. 1955?a curiously fugitive image despite its size, full of airy space and images of flight: the winds from Botticelli's Birth of Venus, photographs of a bee, a dragonfly, a mosquito and a fly's eye. Gradually the objects became more dominant...
Some of its contents are both well known and justly famous: the majestic St. Jerome as a Cardinal by El Greco, Giovanni di Paolo's exquisite description of the medieval cosmos, The Expulsion from Paradise, Rembrandt's Portrait of Gérard de Lairesse, a Botticelli Annunciation. Others are perhaps less familiar - Ingres's Portrait of the Princesse de Broglie, one of the supreme moments in 19th century art; a Sassetta Temptation of St. Anthony; Petrus Christus' Saint Eligius and assorted Flemish treasures; a splendid array of medieval and Renaissance panel paintings from Italy and northern...
...museum is insane. The most often-heard comment there is "Where did she get all this junk?" Japanese screens crowd the back staircases. Roman sarcophagi mix with Buddhist shrines, are surmounted by Venetian balconies and bordered by Egyptian owls. That portrait of her husband confronts a Botticelli--when Mrs. Gardner bought that painting, the Prince who smuggled it out of Italy almost landed in jail. Her Manets are grouped in one tiny, overcrowded room where they compete with William James's portrait of his literary brother, while an entire long hall is given over as a showplace for a Spanish...
...neck, Maureen Dean, 28, became familiar to millions of TV viewers as she sat stage right of husband John Dean III at the Senate Watergate hearings. Wanting to avoid unwelcome public attention since then, "Mo" has changed her hair color to light brown and the style to modified Botticelli angel. Trouble is, she plans to show off her disguise on NBC's Dinah Shore Show. Yet another hair style will then presumably be in order so that she can try again for anonymity...