Word: emperors
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...young actress not wilt in this adoring, predatory glare? All right, Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday--but that film had an old-Hollywood glow, and Hepburn was unique. The two Tyler movies are anemic, anomic art-house fodder. One comes from the director of The Conformist and The Last Emperor; the other from the guy who is about to make CopLand, the film Sly Stallone hopes will turn him into a certified Actor...
...other word for its weirdly authoritarian effect--in a high-backed chair upholstered in floral chintz. Painted darkly in homage to Manet and preceded by some of the most beautiful head studies in Cezanne's early work, it depicts the stunted Emperaire as a parody king, an "emperor," but with compassion; no mere caricatural impulse could account for the averted gaze and the great, sad, liquid eyes...
...hereditary diseases (that's how they hope to prove Lincoln suffered from Marfan syndrome, a genetic disorder that makes its victims grow tall and gangly). Hair also soaks up drugs and other foreign substances from the body (low levels of arsenic in Napoleon's hair established that the ex-Emperor probably wasn't poisoned, as some historians believed...
...folk is making a comeback, from the resurgent Tracy Chapman's unexpected Top 10 CD, New Beginning, to the folk-punk punch of Ani DiFranco. In his Unplugged set, the musically eclectic Seal (according to him, his favorite albums right now include Stereolab's involving art-pop CD, Emperor Tomato Ketchup; D*Note's politically aware dance album, Criminal Justice; and Henryk Gorecki's avant-garde classical CD, Symphony No. 3) managed to draw from disparate strains of pop and weave them into a single folksy tapestry, performing a bluesy cover of Jimi Hendrix's Stone Free as well...
...official portrait approaches a kind of apogee in the Ming dynasty too, but the show contains some striking earlier examples. Witness the anonymous 13th century effigy of the Empress Chabi, wife of the first Yuan Emperor, Shih-tsu, better known to us as Kublai Khan. Did she look like that, this formidable dumpling? Who can know? But it's an image of detached power, the moon face framed in the magnificent red profiles of robe and towering formal headdress...