Word: deft
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Vatican Objections. In the deft sweep of his lines and the religious themes that dominate his work, Manzù is unmistakably an heir of Renaissance tradition. Yet his sculpture has not always pleased a church that takes pride in the Michelangelo who painted St. Peter's Sistine Chapel ceiling. In 1947 the Holy Office denounced as "obscene" a Manzù crucifixion scene that depicted a totally naked Christ. Last year, after viewing a plaster cast of the doors, Vatican representatives objected to four of the panels as too profane: Cain and Abel, death by hanging, death of a mother...
London's Sotheby & Co. has become the world's largest art auction house by conscientious attention to both fine detail and broad brush stroke in the art of auctioneering. Last week Sotheby's also portrayed deft talent as a buyer. Outbidding U.S. Investment Executive Alex Hillman, it paid $1.5 million to win 75% control of the major U.S. auction house, Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries. By acquiring its biggest U.S. competitor, Sotheby's secured a long-needed U.S. auction outlet and assured itself the role of auctioneer for most of the important American art collections...
BAREFOOT IN THE PARK. Playwright Neil Simon's deft quips punctuate this early-marital farce with humor to spare for a zany subplot involving a mother-in-law and a Continental charmer (he thinks...
BAREFOOT IN THE PARK. Playwright Neil Simon's deft quips punctuate this early-marital farce with enough humor to spare for a zany subplot involving a mother-in-law and a continental charmer (he thinks...
...Such deft maneuvers are the work of Lykes Chairman Solon B. Turman, 64, the son of Tillie Lykes, who joined her seven brothers in founding the line. A tough-minded patriarch, Turman started out as a young man shoveling manure on Lykes's boats when the line was still ferrying cattle between Cuba and Florida. Now, with 52 ships regularly calling at 156 ports in 68 nations, Lykes is the largest U.S. dry-cargo shipping line. Turman runs the company so well that it earned $8,400,000 last year on revenues of $65.9 million...