Word: grecos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...event, by the following summer she was sharing a pad with Elton and Bernie. Elton was miserably going ahead with plans to marry her, despite the fact that "she hated my music. Everything I'd write she'd put down. Her favorite record was actually Buddy Greco singing The Lady Is a Tramp...
Some of its contents are both well known and justly famous: the majestic St. Jerome as a Cardinal by El Greco, Giovanni di Paolo's exquisite description of the medieval cosmos, The Expulsion from Paradise, Rembrandt's Portrait of Gérard de Lairesse, a Botticelli Annunciation. Others are perhaps less familiar - Ingres's Portrait of the Princesse de Broglie, one of the supreme moments in 19th century art; a Sassetta Temptation of St. Anthony; Petrus Christus' Saint Eligius and assorted Flemish treasures; a splendid array of medieval and Renaissance panel paintings from Italy and northern...
Spain has long held a firm grip on man's imagination. It is the land of mystery, a Gothic tapestry sewn together from strands of brutal sunshine and lustful blood, of tart wine and even tarter women. It is the secret of thunderous clouds menacing El Greco's Toledo; the acrid fire consuming the bodies of heretics during the Inquisition; the melancholy strains of a guitar played after a day's labor in the fields; the gnarled branches of the olive trees that cluster throughout the sun-beaten hills. It is the legend of the independence of the leather-skinned...
...program failed to reassure many Italians. In Torre del Greco, a city of 83,000 on the Bay of Naples, some 500 people who could not be immunized because the vaccine supply ran out marched on the municipal building and had to be dispersed by police...
Some of Weese's restoration jobs-notably Chicago's huge, Greco-Roman Field Museum of Natural History, its Newberry Library and Orchestra Hall-involve what he calls "good housekeeping." He makes no major structural changes, but he reorganizes layouts and adds air conditioning and modern lighting. The point: to keep old buildings useful, and so to give them new life...