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...candlestick-cum-reliquary depicting the flight into Egypt, borrowed from a church in Gaeta, is an exquisite example of how late medieval French styles penetrated into Italian taste at the end of the 14th century. Bernardino da Foligno's late quattrocento bust of St. Balduino has a grave nobility and an intensity of modeling that, one supposes, the saint's living features could not have had. (The actual head of St. Balduino, like a stone in a peach, lies encased within the sculpture...
...Swedish souvenirs the house may harbor. Her parents often bring her son gifts from their travels; orange blue painted wooden horses from Sweden line the mantel in his room. "Like the ones I had when I was little," she says. In the library downstairs there is a white marble bust of Sissela, sculpted when she was 11. Her parents wanted to give work to one of the refugees in Sweden, so Sissela sat once a week for months playing solitaire, while the refugee artist ignored the child and chiseled out her image in marble. "My husband wanted this copy...
...YORKERS are proud of having the biggest and most extreme examples of all facets of urban life, and we are taking the coming bankruptcy with a kind of perverse pride. If you're going to go bust, after all, you might as well do it on a princely scale--and $12 billion worth of debt is something that only one institution in American can afford to sneeze...
Gorst flung the ultimate Trotskyite insult at the Redgraves: "They are totally Stalinist." Vanessa, for her part, struggled to cast the Red House raid as a cause celebre. The police bust, she eagerly insisted during TV interviews, was "the biggest political attack on any political party since the offices of the Daily Worker were raided...
...family business was a stumbling block. They said it wasn't. I've talked about giving them more of an interest in running the company. The response was disappointing. They mistrust ownership shares because of what happened to companies like Rolls-Royce when they went bust. Workers lost not only their jobs, but part of their savings as well...