Word: franz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fall and spring the entourage moved to Hillwood, the Georgian mansion on Mrs. Post's 24-acre estate in Washington, D.C. With ambassadors and heads of state as her guests, the style was more elaborate. Liveried servants served formal dinners on vermeil plates originally cast for Emperor Franz Josef of Austria. Guests could view the most extensive collection of Czarist icons and jewelry outside the Soviet Union, the result of a Post buying spree in Moscow with her third husband, Ambassador Joseph E. Davies. At Hillwood, Mrs. Post's pet schnauzer slept in a bed once used...
...comedy like many of his later works (Rain from Heaven, Wine of Choice). No Time for Comedy (1939), the story of a writer who wants to be serious yet has a gift mainly for entertainment, reflected Behrman's own situation; but in several plays, including his adaptation of Franz Werfel's Jacobowsky and the Colonel (1944), he successfully fused comedy with drama. A celebrated raconteur, Behrman delighted his many friends, among them Greta Garbo, for whom he did the screenplays of Queen Christina and Anna Karenina. In later years Behrman wrote biographies of Lord Duveen and Max Beerbohm...
CERTAINLY there is nothing new about groundbreaking art being greeted with skepticism. The philistines met Gaugin's primitivism with exclamations of "Why, a child could do that!"; the Impressionists were laughed out of the Academie Francaise; Franz Kline's random slashings and Jackson Pollock's random drippings ran another gauntlet of disbelief before being established as art. And as the seventies' Goths buck before art ordered by telephone and manufactured in factories, before pictures of chalked-off earth sites and rocks wrapped in plastic, yet another avant garde rises to vindicate them. But it is an awfully shaky testimony they...
...this point, reasoning that he would stand no chance of survival if captured by the Germans as Franz Levai, Austrian Jew, he changed his name to Frank Lloyd. It is said that he chose the name because of its reassuring similarity to Lloyd's of London. On Dday, his unit landed in Normandy. A brave and aggressive soldier, Lloyd fought in the tank corps across Europe. In a tank explosion in Germany shortly before the war's end he was severely wounded and temporarily blinded...
Marlborough now represents 66 living artists, a few of them giants-including Bacon, Henry Moore and Clyfford Still. The majority, however, are middle-of-the-road figures like Fernando Botero, Michael Steiner or Richard Diebenkorn. Marlborough also manages the estates of David Smith, Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline and Ad Reinhardt...