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...wife. The seller was Prince Franz Josef II, head of tiny (61 sq. mi.) Liechtenstein, tucked snugly between Austria and Switzerland. Price: an estimated $5,000,000, more than twice the previous record of $2,300,000, paid in 1961 for Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer by Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum. And while the National Gallery refused to identify the private donors who had put up the sum, it was an open secret that the principal ones were the gallery's president, Multimillionaire Paul Mellon, son of the gallery's builder...
Sinuous Odalisques. Ironically, while Ingres cared little about them, his oil portraits and sketches are today more highly prized than his pretentious and cluttered "classical" set pieces on subjects such as the Apotheosis of Homer. No matter how classical his tastes, Ingres was infected with Romanticism. His sinuous, elongated odalisques contributed to the 19th century vogue for the Oriental...
Setting out his thesis in the current issue of Astronautics and Aeronautics, Aeronautical Engineer Homer Stewart suggests that the gravity of other planets represents a still-untapped source of energy for long-range space flights. Jupiter's gravity, for example, would exert a tremendous pull on a passing spacecraft, accelerating it greatly and deflecting its course. Thus Jovian gravity could be used, in effect, to gain both thrust and a mid-course correction without the expenditure of fuel. Space scientists, like expert billiard players, can precisely determine the amount of acceleration and degree of deflection by careful control...
...first 45,000 of these sets, and the albums are selling so fast that Victor would do well to look around for more dry goods. The musical part of the package is also pure nostalgia, consisting of several dozen duets, trios and arias sung by Met stars from Louise Homer (in 1905) to Zinka Milanov...
Some critics have added Petrakis' name to the literary tree that bore Homer and Nikos Kazantzakis. That's going out on a limb, perhaps. It is reasonable enough to say that this third novel has the virtues of forthrightness and utter simplicity and shows, at least, how much a little hubris on the author's part can improve an indifferent story...