Word: clays
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...crabby-looking servant girl grinding aioli in Diego Velazquez's Kitchen Scene with Christ in the House of Martha and Mary was to the sumptuous nudes of Titian or Veronese. A modern palate would recoil at the eggs slowly frying, or rather poaching, in oil on top of a clay stove in Velazquez's An Old Woman Cooking Eggs. But what an amazing act of skill the picture itself is, done in 1618 by a 19-year-old boy who wanted to display his total control over surface texture, form and light, from the transparency of the oil in which...
...climax of the show comes at the right place, its end, with four still lifes by Francisco de Goya. Because Goya was supremely a painter of the human clay in all its aspects, we don't associate him with still life. But his powers of empathy were so vast that he could endow almost anything with a shiver of mortality and the cold touch of otherness; and so it is with these paintings...
...latest is Ralph Fiennes, who stars in a production that has traveled from London's Almeida Theatre Company to Broadway. Fiennes, 32, is known primarily as a movie actor (he played the unforgettable chief villain -- in a world overrun by villainy -- of Schindler's List, and the fair-haired, clay-footed young scholar, Charles Van Doren, of Quiz Show), but his roots are in theater, and he handles Shakespeare's great role with a commanding blend of intelligence and ardor...
...other council action, a bill was approved to show a movie in the Freshman Union on Thursday, May 11. The bill was sponsored by Philip R. Kaufman '98 and Clay M. West '96 as a replacement for the Yard movie that felt through two weeks...
Some 10 bands are also scheduled to appear on two stages. The main stage features G-Love and Special Sauce, Spatula, Swedish Cookie, Fuzzy Navel and Daily Planet. Its smaller counterpart will host several other Harvard bands, including Mezzaluna, Blanket Envy, Steamship of Beef, Ground Zero and Jaws of Clay...