Word: gabriell
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...artists in the show, like Manet himself, or Gustave Courbet or Jean Frangois Millet, have secure reputations as masters. Almost all the rest, whose paintings have been exhumed and whose biographies have been researched with indefatigable diligence by the show's curator, Art Historian Gabriel P. Weisberg of the Cleveland Museum of Art (where the show originated last November), are minor figures. But that is not the show's point. Rather, what Weisberg and his colleagues have tried to do is re-complicate our view of the 19th century and fill in some of the details...
...never wielded any weapon but my typewriter," Colombian Author Gabriel Garcia Marquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude), 53, complained after a hasty departure from his basement apartment in Bogota last month. Fearing a secret warrant for his arrest, the novelist and journalist fled to Mexico after Colombia had broken relations with Cuba and his personal friend Fidel Castro. The regime claims that the leading surrealist was merely trying to embarrass them by seeking refuge in the Mexican embassy in Colombia. But Garcia Marquez says, "I am shy and I look aggressive." Some countrymen offer a more illuminating possibility...
...unusual (a picture of a stained-glass window showing monks riding bicycles). Requests for pictures that the staff believes to be nonexistent are met with gentle regrets. Among the most frequently sought-after: the sinking of the Titanic, the Earl of Sandwich eating a sandwich, and the elusive Gabriel Fahrenheit, developer of the thermometric scale, an authentic picture of whom would earn a $1,000 reward from the archive. Fees for the archive's service (exclusive of royalties) can range from...
...perhaps self-hate. After achieving degradations close to madness, Newlove stopped drinking. In 1970 he published The Painter Gabriel, a novel whose subject, fresh language and touching exuberance reminded some critics of Joyce Gary's The Horse's Mouth. Generous praise greeted his second novel, Leo & Theodore, a picaresque about the bawdy adventures of Siamese twins growing up near Lake Erie, the author's home turf. This book and its sequel, The Drunks, were revised and republished as Sweet Adversity...
Erhart has a more intoxicating idea, like eloping with a pert divorcee (Patricia Cray Lloyd). The desolate John Gabriel wanders out into the snow to die, and the sisters clasp hands of reconciliation over his body. Marshall, Murphy and Worth do the best that able professionals can with their roles but this production rarely gives them much scope...