Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This outburst of randiness may have cost Giulio his Roman career. Raphael was dead, and his former assistants were now maneuvering on their own for the big commissions. But with Luther raging against Vatican corruption and a reformist chill blowing through the papal court, Pope Clement VII was not going to make a pornographer his official painter. At this point Baldassare Castiglione, Raphael's friend and author of The Courtier, fixed Giulio up with his job in Mantua...
There he had no rivals and no clergy breathing censoriously down the back of his neck. Federico II Gonzaga's court was a secular one; not even his tamest eulogists could have called the Duke pious. He was, however, brave, generous, greedy, obsessed with his own virtu (which meant prowess, not virtue) and determined to go down in history for his martial skills, his classical learning and his devotion to all vertical and horizontal forms of the chase. In Giulio, this son of Isabella d'Este found a court artist whose libidinousness and intelligence fit his own. Both men moved...
...choice forces nonetheless feel they have the political momentum. A TIME/ CNN poll of 1,000 adult women last week indicated a dramatic shift on the issue since the Supreme Court ruled in July that states could pass laws restricting abortion. Only 12% said abortion should be illegal under all circumstances. Moreover, 66% disagreed with the Supreme Court ruling, and 54% said abortion is one of the most important issues facing the country today...
Warner Bros., which is controlled by Time Warner, is suing Sony, Guber and Peters in Los Angeles Superior Court for $1 billion, accusing them of breaching the contract. Warner has asked the court for a permanent injunction, on which the court is expected to rule this week, to prevent Guber and Peters from working for anyone else. Warner contends that Guber and Peters are responsible for more than 50 of the studio's current projects, including the film version of Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities. Sony and the two producers are countersuing for $100 million, charging Warner with...
...water flowing evenly and slowly across its flat surface. Underneath the water, etched in the stone and looking like points of a sundial, would be the words -- the names and the events -- that would tell the history of the civil rights era. They begin with 17 MAY 1954 SUPREME COURT OUTLAWS SCHOOL SEGREGATION IN BROWN VS. BOARD OF EDUCATION and end with 4 APR 1968 DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. ASSASSINATED MEMPHIS, TN (there will be 53 entries in all, with a conspicuous space before Brown and after King, suggesting the struggle didn't begin with the Brown decision...