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...Nothing I do will ever be finished, everything remains just another study." The sculptor maligns himself. Actually, his figures, singly and in groups, stand in ever more complex relationships. Increasingly, he has become discontent to leave his bronzes bare, painting their stark silhouettes as if providing the emperor's new clothes. Scale, too, remains a concern. A foot will bulk large with deliberate elephantiasis-an indication of foreshortening-or a head will contract into a pin to appear farther away. His Monumental Head stands only 371-in. high, yet it looms as massively as the great stone profiles...
Thousands of solemn Austrians lined the streets of Vienna to pay their last respects to former Chancellor and Foreign Minister Leopold Figl. It was partly because Austrians love nothing better than a schöne Leich' (beautiful funeral), and this was the most elaborate since the Emperor Franz Josefs in 1916. But it was also because last week marked the tenth anniversary of the Austrian State Treaty, under which the Red Army left the country, and Figl was best remembered as the Foreign Minister who stood on the balcony of Belvedere Palace ten years ago, waving the morocco-bound...
While the U.S. was occupied with the Civil War, Spain regained control of its former colony of Santo Domingo and France set up the Austrian Archduke Maximilian as Emperor of Mexico. But in 1865, shortly after Appomattox, the Spaniards cleared out of Santo Domingo; a year later France, under U.S. pressure, began pulling its troops out of Mexico, leaving Maximilian to die before a Mexican firing squad. In 1903, after Germany, Britain and Italy decreed a blockade of Venezuela to force the dictator of the day to pay claims due their citizens, President Theodore Roosevelt warned the Europeans away with...
...uncle of the human race and prince of good livers!" The line appeared in London's Vanity Fair and described a beguiling American who counted among his friends Bismarck, the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII), Thomas Huxley, President Garfield, the Emperor of Brazil, Tennyson, Thackeray and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow...
...first time in two decades a Korean last week was granted an audience with the Emperor of Japan. He was South Korea's Foreign Minister, Dong Won Lee, and during his six-day visit to Tokyo he received the full red-carpet treatment, from a 19-gun salute to a cocktail party in the glittering Pearl Room of the Tokyo Hilton...