Word: brett
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BRETT WHITELEY, 25, is a Sydney publisher's son and rambunctiously Australian, the kind who ties his own kangaroo down. He was enraptured by Piero della Francesca while on a scholarship in Italy in 1960, and has insisted ever since that paintings should have shallow, stagelike space, like Piero's. Says he: "I like to be stopped cold not more than two inches inside the picture plane. Even with Jackson Pollock, you go on forever and get lost." His own preference is for abstract figural arrangements with the "thumping, alive sense of skin on skin." After painting...
...hero of the play is a priest, a kind of angry young martyr of burning faith and compassion who deliberately pins the yellow Star of David to his cassock and eventually goes to his death in the gas chambers. Father Riccardo Fontana (Jeremy Brett) is a Jesuit serving with the papal nuncio in Berlin when a distracted SS lieutenant bursts into an afternoon tea and begins a semihysterical recital of the statistical horrors of the "factories of death for people" at Treblinka and Belzec. "I'm sorry . . . why must you come to me?" says the nuncio in visible dismay...
...glass of water on a shelf with a spoon kerplunk in it. The only true portraits, surprisingly, are Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning's Marilyn Monroe and Pop Artist James Rosenquist's Portrait of the Scull Family. Little-known names among the 102 were Australia's Brett Whiteley and a young Indian named Mohan Samant...
...confused, however, with Hemingway's fictional Lady Brett Ashley or the real-life Sylvia Ashley...
...took over in 1917. In the more humdrum world of the 20th century, witty, Cambridge-educated Sir Charles Vyner Brooke became even more of a legend than his predecessors. He issued his own stamps, flew his own flag, maintained his own army and police force. His ranee was Sylvia Brett, the beautiful daughter of a viscount who, it was said, had been Sir James Barrie's inspiration for Peter Pan. Another literary admirer was George Bernard Shaw. When Sylvia *married the rajah in 1911, he wrote: Ride a cock horse to Sarawak Cross To see a young ranee consumed...