Word: grandees
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Thanks to Chicago grandmothers like Mrs. Potter Palmer, the impressionist-loving grande dame of Chicago society in the 1890s, to say nothing of grandfathers like Hardware Heir Frederic Clay Bartlett, who gave the museum Seurat's La Grande Jatte, the Art Institute today is the possessor of a 19th...
Chicago acquires new works primarily to illuminate the ones it already owns. Jacques Louis David's softly fragmented technique in his 1792 Portrait of the Marquise de Pastoret foreshadows the pointillism of La Grande Jatte. Gustave Caillebotte's huge (7 ft. by 9 ft.), damply breathtaking Place de...
Sir: The art of perverting the truth was not invented by Buckley but by the cynical school of Sophists thousands of years ago. Any fool can learn the rules, and if followed by a parrot, he could appear as a wise old bird to the child-brained. ALFRED FABRE Casa...
Out of the arid-and cactiferous-wastes of southern Texas, where even today the cowboys say you can see farther, and see less, than anywhere else on earth, John Nance Garner carved a hefty fiefdom along the Rio Grande and parlayed his brand of conservative populism (with due regard for...
Under the arrangement, Mexico got 437 acres of El Chamizal and the U.S. kept 193. The pact also requires the building of a new river channel and three bridges across the Rio Grande, with Mexico sharing the costs. Meantime, Congress allocated $44.9 million for the relocation and compensation of the...