Word: brac
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Loyola Law School in 1974 and set up a practice with three classmates, specializing in family law. Allred, Maroko, Goldberg & Ribakoff now numbers five women and six men - "all feminists," boasts Allred. The firm's star operates from a plush office jammed with antiques and feminist bric-a-brac. Among the items: a captain's desk with female gargoyles and a bewigged mannequin bearing a plaque THE QUEEN IS NOT GRANTING AUDIENCES TODAY. The sign is a gift from her daughter Lisa, a second-year law student at Yale. Working 14-hour days leaves Allred little time with...
...grand old house dominates this film. Impossibly ornate, stocked with paintings and furniture and bric-a-brac and candles, candles everywhere, it invites the children who live in it to become adventurers into its secrets. The mansion broods over a quiet Swedish town, in the winter of 1907, and it is the place where ten-year-old Alexander (Bertil Guve) and his younger sister Fanny (Pernilla Allwin) and their parents and grandmother, the Ekdahls, reside. But with a leap of film fancy it becomes the house that Bergman built: an edifice constructed of 40 films in nearly 40 years...
...Kris-had received paltry sums. Then, just in time for the 20th anniversary of her death last August, a Los Angeles lawyer-agent, Roger Richman, won the right to represent the Monroe estate as the sole licensing agent for Monroebilia. Richman is currently tracking down marketers of bric-a-brac and is now reportedly charging those new to the Monroe business 6% of gross in return for the right to use an "official" M.M. logo. He will not reveal his agent's fee, but notes that "there is no regulation for those dearly departed." (Some manufacturers have separate agreements...
Life, Death, the Zeitgeist, and above all the tragic though profitable condition of being a Great Artist. It is big, and stuffed with clunky references to other Great Art, from Caravaggio to Joseph Beuys. Its imagery is callow and solemn, a Macy's parade of expressionist bric-a-brac: skulls, bullfights, crucifixes, severed heads. It includes portraits of the likes of Baudelaire, Artaud, Burroughs and other connoisseurs of crisis. It serves up, by implication, the image of Schnabel himself as a young Prince of Aquitaine, albeit a Texan one, sleepless with memory and disillusion, contemplating the wrenched spare parts...
...appalling View of the Kremlin in a Romantic Landscape, its gold onion domes and pink ramparts and red star floating on a sea like the isle of Cythera itself, framed by a "classical" Poussinesque clutter of arching trees, fallen columns and pediments and other bric-a-brac. It has the deeply sincere vulgarity of a holy card: an alliance between Alexander Gerasimov, Stalin's favorite artist, and Walt Disney...