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...require an additional $2 million a year for operating expenses. One does not go spending such amounts on the marginal and the controversial -- on what modernism used to be when the chairman of the Met's 20th century department, William S. Lieberman, 62, formerly of MOMA, was scarcely a gleam in his Irish mother...
...house in Glen Ellen, Calif., close to the Sonoma vineyards. The interior is vibrant, bursting with the warm, roseate tones of the landscapes the author loves -- Provence, Mexico and California. Each room testifies to the range of interests of the occupant. There are floor tiles with the soft black gleam of Oaxaca pottery, bright peasant rugs, wreaths of silver-green bay leaves and garlands of dried black-red chili peppers, leaning towers of books, phonograph records on and under tables, and paintings stacked against and hung on rough- painted white walls. Through it all moves the shadow of a calico...
...much." Failing eyesight, severe arthritis and other infirmities are about the only limitations she accepts, and then only because she must. It is hard to reconcile the hands so stiff they can no longer type and the slow movement across the room with the gleam of the gray-green eyes, the brightly lipsticked smile, the clear voice and, most of all, the feisty opinions...
...across the nave to their diametric opposite, Thomas Couture's pedantic warning to the Third Empire, The Romans of the Decadence, ancestor of all Cecil B. DeMille orgies. In the distance, on a raised loft that stood where the trains once came in and out, was a grimy white gleam: the spectral plaster of Rodin's Gates of Hell. In a side gallery, a visitor furtively ran his finger over the marble nipple of a luscious demimondaine writhing naked among stone roses, once the sensation of the salon of 1847, whose model had been apostrophized by Baudelaire...
Right now the idea is just a gleam in the eyes of U.S. officials in Sri Lanka. But if they have their way, the snake-devouring mongoose, celebrated in the 1894 Kipling classic Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, may eventually replace the German shepherd as the drug sniffer of choice at some international airports. The U.S. embassy in Colombo is so intrigued with the idea that it has asked the State Department for $10,000 to fund a mongoose training school at the Colombo...