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That reality is composed of motion, or constant change, is unquestionable. That art gains by truly imitating reality is not. For kinetic art, the dilemma is to surmount the gimmickry necessary to make it move. A question yet unanswered is: Would Leonardo da Vinci have been truer to life if, every minute or so, the Mona Lisa winked...
GLORIA RAMOS DA RODDA Annapolis...
Agent 007 has come to pay his last respects to the shapely, black-veiled widow of a SPECTRE assassin. An oboe sighs mournfully. He goes to press her hand and bam! da-bam! bam!-a volley of brass suddenly screams bloody murder. Agent 007 knocks the widow head over high heels with a bone-jarring right cross to the jaw. Aha! Just as he thought: it was not the widow but the assassin himself. Accompanied by thumping kettledrums, 007 methodically works the villain over with karate punches and a well-placed kick, then strangles him to death. A clatter...
...most famous of Prince Franz Josef II's 1,500 oils is Leonardo da Vinci's Ginevra del Bend, a painting that is strikingly evocative of the Louvre's Mona Lisa. It is the only recognized Leonardo not yet on a museum wall. Such may not long be the case. In a front-page story, the New York Times last week reported that Ginevra* had caught the eye of the prince of collectors. Said the headline: $6 MILLION...
With the Ginevra, Simon had even more reason for caution. Of the world's dozen Da Vinci experts, there are still two or three who question whether it is certainly by Leonardo's hand. Then, especially in the lower portion, it is in less than the pristine condition of the Mona Lisa. So when the prince's agents approached the meticulous millionaire with an offer to sell it for $7,000,000, he insisted that the price be reduced to $6,000,000 and that he have the right to take it to experts outside Liechtenstein...