Word: frescoing
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...aborted honeymoon in the swaying railway car in The Music Lovers and Nina Ivanovna's dementia. With each new film. Ken Russell has become increasingly obsessed with madness-which is dangerously like a kind of madness in itself. Now, in The Devils, he has made a delirious fresco about the insanity of the witch hunts in 17th century France. It is a movie so unsparingly vivid in its imagery, so totally successful in conveying an atmosphere of uncontrolled hysteria that Russell himself seems like a man possessed...
...reasoning that he might just as well share in some of the profits from his own work, finally allowed the book to be launched officially (Macmillan; $3.95). The result is neither novel nor poem, but a series of free-association images that succeed, at best, in creating a freaky fresco of hell. The book has the feel and sound of such nightmare Dylan lyrics as Desolation Row and Memphis Blues Again. It is peopled by meth freaks, lumberjacks, a man called Simply That, and a vaporous presence named Aretha with "religious thighs" and "no goals" who is described...
...most private of all arts, tiny in scale, introverted and forbiddingly difficult to do, a matter of brush strokes one-fiftieth of an inch long and burnished dots of gold no bigger than a flake of cigarette ash. Unlike the grand-scale media of stained glass and fresco -which Michelino also worked in, though little he made has survived-an illuminated manuscript was frequently aimed at an audience of one: the patron who ordered it. Consequently, their owners must have experienced them not only as marvelous and jewel-like artifacts but also as a proof of class power: books which...
...descend on Washington en masse (see following story), but the city seems unperturbed. On the Capitol lawn, a group of Democratic presidential hopefuls, including Senators Birch Bayh of Indiana. Henry Jackson of Washington, and Harold Hughes of Iowa, startled passers-by as they sat down to dessert al fresco. The herring are beginning to run in the polluted Potomac. Willie Mays, age 39, hit four homers for the San Francisco Giants in the first four games of the new baseball season...
...most alluring painting, a fresco, is Picro della Francesca's Hercules. The Italians also felt this work quite attractive, for laws were established to prevent taking such masterpieces out of the country, Mrs. Gardner had already bought the giant; it was only a question of getting him to Boston. A dealer got last-minute permission for Hercules' export, and the painted plaster took its place in the Museum's Early Italian Room...