Word: estee
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You reported on actress Pamela Anderson's harassment by "Hormonal Teenagers" at the Uruguayan beach resort of Punta del Este [PEOPLE, Feb. 8]. You blamed it on "randy Uruguayan boys." However, right now Punta del Este is practically taken over by vacationing Argentines. It seems all too likely that it...
Practically nothing is known of Dosso's life, except for a few dates and contracts. But it was protected: he spent almost all of it working for two rulers of Ferrara, first for Alfonso I d'Este and then, after Alfonso's death in 1534, for his son Ercole II...
But the hothouse atmosphere of the Este court shows in Dosso's major works: they tend to be playful, elaborately poetic and almost impossible to connect to the usual literary sources, as though they were suggested by highly sophisticated people dreaming up ever more obscure secular concetti. In a word...
In choosing Zedillo, Mexicans voted for stability. They had been badly frightened by a year of upheaval that began with the armed rebellion in Chiapas led by angry peasants and included political assassination and kidnappings of wealthy businessmen. Such fears helped the party in power, which offered security and familiarity...
To be esteemed as a painter was to be compared with lost and mythic artists: Parrhasios, Zeuxis and Apelles. Mantegna's taste for emblems and learned allegory -- the mark of superior imagination among Italian humanists -- pervades the work he did at Isabella d'Este's prompting, such as the fantastically...