Word: flemish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years ago, a drawing that was labeled only "School of Francesco Cossa" brought $23,520. The same year a tiny Bellini showing Christ at the column went for $44,100. Last week at Sotheby's, a delicate little drawing of a wispy young woman by the 15th century Flemish Painter Hugo van der Goes made twice as much news. It was a study the master had made for a painting, possibly of St. Barbara. The painting has been lost; the study survived to fetch...
...months has been armor. At Christie's in London, a recent sale of 358 items brought in less than $34,000; at the Palais Galliera in Paris, on the other hand, someone paid $48,000 for a small Louis XVI table. In the past year, the prices of Flemish, French and Italian Renaissance tapestries have doubled; in the past two years, the price of French 18th century furniture has quadrupled. And for the housewife or hot-dog connoisseur who really cares, a niche a chien made for Mark Antoinette brought $15,375 in Paris, and a Cézanne...
...other hand, held all their seats in the House of Representatives, gained five in the Senate. Even the Communists, who had lost strength steadily since 1946, suddenly found themselves with three new seats in the House, for a total of five; there were also gains for the far-right Flemish People's Union, which advocates a separate state with internal autonomy for the Flemish-speaking area in the north...
...than simply defeating Premier Gaston Eyskens' economic austerity program. He sought the downfall of the regime. He demanded a new socialized pattern for Belgium, with nationalization of industry and central economic planning. He wanted a division of his country into two federated regions-the Walloon south and the Flemish north. Unable for years to achieve this by normal political means, he had seized on the strike to try to impose his program from the streets...
...Renard's bidding, the strikers persisted. Although the Flemish north now was quiet and mostly back at work, the rest of Belgium remained racked with strife. The Cabinet met and decided to order 2,000 more troops back from their NATO garrisons in Germany to help guard factories and mines that Renard's extremists had threatened with sabotage. In many towns gendarmes escorted government-conscripted garbage men on their rounds; as they dumped the cans into trucks, village after village echoed to auto horns that beeped rhythmically "Eyskens au po-teau"-"Eyskens to the gallows." Here and there...