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...wrestlers strove amain, using some of the classic grips of Homer's time. As in Homer's time, the sweat flowed in streams, even if blood did not. Toledo's heaving modern heroes were competing for titles in a wrestling style new to National A.A.U. competition : Greco-Roman, a modified descendant of the style used by Odysseus and Aias...
...night) wer piling in to see George Balanchine's New York City Ballet, which has found attendance so good that it has extended its "fall season" into January (TIME, Dec. 8). Among the other troupes keeping dance fans hopping were those of Spanish Dancer Jose Greco (flamenco in high heels) and Mexican Dancer José Limón (expressionism in bare feet...
Across the state line in Missouri, there was news last week of an older and more celebrated name in art: Spain's 16th century (1541-1614) master, El Greco. Kansas City's William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art proudly announced that it had just bought El Greco's Portrait of a Trinitarian Monk, one of his last and most impressionistic works, a magnificent study of a bearded cleric in white robes and a dark cape...
Painted about 1610, the 37 in. by 33 in. portrait was part of a private collection in Madrid, has only rarely been on public display. Kansas City, said the gallery, would see it next month, but no one would hint how much it had cost to bring El Greco's monk to Missouri. A good guess: well over...
...technique, Levine is an expressionist. He twists figures and features with an El Greco-like abandon, and trowels on hot & cold colors almost as lavishly as Rouault. But Levine dislikes the term: "Expressionism," he says solemnly, "puts too high a premium on subjective reactions...