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...past 20 years. This is due in no small part to the detail. Rather than being a portmanteau of highlights, the exhibition includes an immense range of underrated "minor" figures like the neoclassicists Jean-François-Pierre Peyron and Jean Germain Drouais. The subject matter runs from the grandest of historical paintings to an eccentric still life with stuffed birds; the figures, from a swooning and epicene Death of Hyacinth by Jean Broc to the passionate and despairing cragginess of Delacroix's Christ in the Garden of Olives, 1827 (see color page...
...some Denver bluenoses), and carriages of every hue to suit her costume. He bestowed on her jewels that supposedly once belonged to Queen Isabella of Spain; in fact, they had been gathered by agents from New York hock shops. He built what was possibly the country's grandest opera house and imported for Denver's delectation almost every current luminary, from Sarah Bernhardt to Oscar Wilde (who bombed...
Downtown, traffic was incredibly misdirected and always stalled, while short wiry policemen with sunglasses and tremendous black women stood on streetcorners as if for some common purpose. Not too far away were what had been the grandest of the old houses in town, three or four large places with New Orleans iron balconies and fan lights over the door, where a judge or banker could have lived. The columns had warped with rot and cracked open. In one of these houses lived a crazy old lady of the Capote/Faulkner stamp, her house full of wilted memories and flowers, whose special...
...fact, the elegant Kiri is a New Zealander, the descendant on her father's side of a Maori chieftain. She now lives in England, where for the past three years her star has been steadily rising. Last week Kiri began to shine in New York too. In the grandest of operatic traditions, she made her Metropolitan Opera debut on a mere three hours' notice. Substituting for an ill Teresa Stratas, she sang Desdemona in Verdi's Otello, with Tenor Jon Vickers. Said the New York Times: "Her voice had a lovely fresh sound. She won the audience...
...couture salons last week in new spring and summer collections looked as if they had just stepped out of a Jean Harlow or Greta Garbo movie. Hemlines had dropped to midcalf; necklines plunged revealingly; clothes were flowingly full again. This evocation of what may have been couture's grandest era-from the mid-1920s to the late '30s-was not simply a salute to nostalgia. The designers seemed to be saying that high fashion belongs to those with a yearning for bygone elegance-and the means to afford some very up-to-date prices...