Word: grecos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meet people," says Owner Rena Ettlinger, whose exercise instructors are all physiologists trained in kinesiology, the science of body movement. "The goal here is long, lean, tight, firm bodies that are powerful all over." At the no-frills Mike's Gym in Cambridge, Mass., Bodybuilder Vinny Greco, 31, scoffs at what he views as the promise of instant fitness promoted by flashier health clubs: "It's like fast food. It's a fast workout." Greco, a former runner-up in the Mr. New England contest, revels in the supermarket of muscle machines that he manages. "It looks...
...Gallery in Washington, D.C., the authors of An Illustrated Life of Jesus, Richard I. Abrams and Warner A. Hutchinson (Abingdon; 159 pages; $35), have selected 94 works to fashion an elaborate and appropriately timed birthday card. From the Annunciation to the Ascension, works by Botticelli, Dürer, El Greco, Rembrandt and dozens of lesser-known artists and craftsmen re-create the greatest story ever told and seen. Piety, passion and drama are conveyed in traditional mediums and styles. Jan van Eyck's Gabriel is a resplendent messenger in jeweled robe and peacock-colored wings. Salvador Dali...
...moved on to Rome, where he became part of the circle of intellectuals who revolved around Fulvio Orsini, librarian to Cardinal Alessandro Farnese. During the next seven years, he prayerfully studied the mannerist distortion of the human figure instigated by Michelangelo. Then for reasons still unknown, El Greco decided to try his luck in Spain, where a friend's father was able to get him commissions for Toledo's chapels...
Religiously, however, he was no rebel. Spain in general-and Toledo in particular-was in the throes of the Counter Reformation, and El Greco never wavered in his support of conventional Catholic doctrine. It is true that he lost the support of cathedral officials because his version of the Disrobing of Christ included the three Marys in the lower left corner (conservatives argue that they are not mentioned in the text of the Gospel). He also lost the hoped-for patronage of King Philip II, who disliked the fact that the artist's version of the Martyrdom...
...Greco had his failures. He never could get his angels to float properly. When doing a portrait, he contrived a pose that suited his view; if hands diverted attention from face, he would magisterially scumble them over, obliterating the knuckles without any sense of embarrassment. He might pair two saints (St. Andrew and St. Francis) who lived centuries apart, and for background, arbitrarily use a part of Toledo...