Word: di
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...assiduously promoted. It is therefore not surprising that the Biennale should devote several rooms to him. However, the qualities of La Pittura Colta go far beyond, or below, De Chirico's fussy homages to Rubens, Titian or Fragonard. Its exponents, such as Carlo Maria Mariani, Stefano di Stasio or Omar Galliani, never use such "warm" sources. As shown by Mariani's Ercole che Riposa, they prefer the cold touch of marble and the frigid contortions of mannerism. Their dream of beauty is a simpering Apollo or a Big Daddy Hercules surrounded by Ganymedes with pearlescent teeth...
...desire to get the highlight on the Spartan's backside right-not that it always does so. It has the calm not of classical elevation but of exhausted decadence. The Venetian setting is unfair to it, for anyone can take the water-bus back to the Scuola di San Rocco and see what Tintoretto could do with the human figure. The right place for it is Las Vegas, among the fountains of Caesars Palace and La Scultura Sinatra. -By Robert Hughes
Bank holidays, that look of Princess Di...
...suffused with an Italianate warmth and passion that explicitly recall Verdi in some passages. The most dramatic of these occurs when Garibaldi, who has been sitting in a box placidly viewing the action onstage, suddenly interrupts to deliver an aria about his life that has the fervor of Di quella pira from Il Trovatore. Whatever the ultimate fate of the CIVIL warS, Glass has a piece that can stand...
Game-Winning RBI--Depalo E--Maspons 2, Di-Cesare, Truft. LOB--Harvard 7, Dartmouth 5 2B-Weller, Dupalo, Rivera 2, Mitchell, Twachtmann, Karol HR-DiCesare, McAndrews, Maspons, SB--Weller, PLavery 2, Twachitmann. CS--PLavery Kay Sf--Kay SF-Kay. Twachtmann. IP H R ER BO SO Dartmouth Hill 3 5 7 7 5 0 Truitt 2 8 6 5 3 2 Hadley L 1 3 2 2 1 0 Harvard Presz 12/3 6 7 7 1 1 Sution 2 4 4 2 2 1 Sorbara W.3-1 31/2...