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...Khrushchev family was obviously resentful of this treatment and decided on their own to erect a monument in Novodyevichy. At a cost of about $20,000, the family hired Ernst Neizvestny, the Soviet Union's most talented sculptor...
...skittish and well observed. Bogdanovich, a hugely eclectic director, borrows heavily here again. The use of a popular tune-Maggie, in this instance-as a sort of sentimental signature comes directly from John Ford, and the mood of much of the light-comedy moments seems a gloss on Ernst Lubitsch. The film's opening is quite ravishing, however-the early moments of a hotel stirring for a new day-and throughout there is a kind of stylistic steadiness new to Bogdanovich...
...early days of his presidency, Pompidou would exercise an official prerogative by wandering through the Louvre after closing hours, lingering to contemplate the creations of his favorite artists. His personal collection included works by Ernst, Braque, Soulages and De Stael-some of which replaced the more traditional art that De Gaulle had favored for the presidential apartments of the Elysee Palace...
...easel in front of a window and continuous with the "real" painted landscape seen beyond, have virtually become surrealist icons) remain unpredictable despite their familiarity. That is because Magritte was such a virtuoso of the insoluble, the contradictory, the locked. Unlike Delvaux (or for that matter Dali, Masson or Ernst), Magritte had absolutely no interest in what seemed romantic, chancy, theatrically mysterious or exotic. He called his paintings "material tokens of the freedom of thought," and materiality is of their essence...
...imminent. After 1 5 min utes, readers looking for truth will see the put-on. But true Bondsmen will rejoice at any flimsy excuse to see their man in action again. Bond is last seen heading for Australia on the trackdown of an old antagonist, Irma Bunt, the late Ernst Stavro Blofeld's baleful dumpling from On Her Majesty's Secret Service...