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...Flawless Flair. Director Lee, who joined the museum in 1952 as curator of Oriental art and took over the reins from Milliken in 1958, uses subtler but equally effective tactics. When a Velásquez portrayal of a court jester turned up for auction in London last year, gossips cast doubt on its authenticity, reserving their admiration for Rembrandt's Titus. Lee arranged to have the Velasquez secretly Xrayed, jetted to Madrid to compare it with other works by the Spanish master. When the hammer went down, Titus sold for $2.2 million; Lee walked away with a rare early...
...Cleveland's finest acquisitions are Goya's portrait of the Infante Don Luis de Boróon and Ribera's Death of Adonis (see color pages). Both works demonstrate Lee's flawless flair for picking a masterpiece that is also an unusual example of its kind. "The modern audience," says Lee, "has come to look to Goya for a brush that is wicked and bitter. But this portrait is of a man that Goya respected and admired. Clearly, he would never win a prize for handsomeness, but there is a sensitivity in his eyes and warmth...
Search for First Causes. Ardrey is undeniably an exciting writer, with a very excitable mind. He has the playwright's flair for the dramatic, for the hyperbole that embroiders truth. That does not mean that his books should be swallowed whole. He will never win his spurs in the scientific community, which stands aghast at his unscientific methodology. The true scientist strives to make a theory stick by marshaling all the conceivable evidence against it. Ardrey vaults to a theory over the obstacles of rebutting fact...
...besides, "if you are good, people will seek you out, no matter where you live." They do, although his location also makes him a natural for more fashionable members of the movie colony, such as Rosalind Russell, Arlene Dahl, Mrs. Robert Stack and Mrs. Kirk Douglas. He has a flair that strikes Italian designers like Emilio Pucci as quintessentially American. His trademark is an extravagantly Californian style: exuberant use of chiffon, bold sun colors such as orange and yellow, the revival of striking art nouveau prints. His magnificent "at home" wear this season includes $1,055 bead-encrusted beige...
Hardtop v. Greensward. "Our parks," Hoving found, "have remained lifelessly suspended in time like the Pyramid of Cheops." Says Hoving: " 'Parks are for people' is the most leaden statement, but it's true." And people need recreation. "Recreational facilities should have a flair," Hoving believes. "They should be spontaneous, offbeat, with a slight tinge of potlatch-letting everything go." Under Hoving, the Parks Department sponsored a Happening in which everyone painted anything on yards and yards of white canvas. When he found that a hill left during construction was the favorite area for boys in one park...