Word: botticellis
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Simonetta Vespucci, the mistress of Giuliano de' Medici, died of tuberculosis at 23, but it is said Botticelli used her lissome and rhythmical curves as the model for Venus on her half-shell and Flora in La Primavera. Vespucci may have looked like that, or she may not. Maybe she was a blond pudge like Pamela Anderson. Getting tumbled in a wave of neo-Platonic fantasizing about how outer shape mirrors inner essence--"For Soule is Forme, and doth the Bodie make," wrote the poet Spenser in 1596--may be great for the figure and complexion when court painters like...
...outspend speculators betting on a weak pound. Wrong. Add hundreds of millions to your bank account. This is what Soros did. The problem is the mistakes themselves. Soros thinks that our history, especially economic history, is sculpted by blunders. It's a radical proposition, as if you suggested that Botticelli's best art was the result of paint splatters. But Soros is insistent: mistakes make history. They also make--and destroy--fortunes...
...many clues. He is swamped in advice: from his musical mentor, the rebel critic Lester Bangs (another off-kilter, on-target tour de force by Philip Seymour Hoffman); from his muse, the knowing groupie Penny Lane (Kate Hudson, with the soft, curly haired charisma of a Woodstock Botticelli); from Stillwater's lead guitarist, Russell Hammond (Billy Crudup, who has finally found the movie role to fit his questing intelligence and almost-too-hunky features); and from his protective mom (fierce, nattering Frances McDormand). William's task is to sift all this good, or at least plausible, advice and make...
...paintings in Kelly M. McVearry's exhibit look like the work of a professional. Each of them is different--one a rendering of Botticelli's "Birth of Venus" in the style of Picasso; another an impressionistic treatment of the National Cathedral. The forms are precise and detailed; even the canvases are stretched expertly. She has received offers from strangers to buy them...
...loneliness that attend AIDS and other human calamities. A woman (Elizabeth Franz) whose son had died in a car accident was comforted by the beautiful singing of the woman (Audra McDonald) whose car had hit him. Two G.I.'s (Brian Dennehy and George Wendt) play a game of Botticelli while waiting for, and then gunning down, a lone enemy soldier. At the funeral for a young man dead of AIDS, his lover (Tim Robbins) tries to reach out to the dead man's mother (Zoe Caldwell), stranded in grief and anger...