Word: hunts
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...secure in their belief that nearly everything England produced between the death of Turner and the arrival of Roger Fry was either hopelessly sentimental or irredeemably quaint, assigned the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood to the dustbin of history. Presumably it will not be long before some canvas by William Holman Hunt or John Everett Millais, the kind one might have got 30 years ago for ?500, becomes the first Pre-Raphaelite picture to fetch a million in the auction room...
...group was small: a secret society of seven artists, led by three men-Hunt, Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti-and followed, eventually, by a small trail of satellite painters. And it was self-consciously "revolutionary": the year was 1848, and a secret society of dangerous young subversives had become one of the special phantoms of the English mind. The P.R.B. wanted to reform English art, to drag it from the swamp of maudlin genre and low-grade history painting. They believed, with the ardent simplicity of young minds, that this decay had set in three centuries before, with Raphael. Hence...
...object to the implication that "environmentalist" means "non-hunter." To hunt and to be concerned about the environment are not mutually exclusive. Theodore Roosevelt, an avid sportsman, was one of the driving forces behind the conservation movement...
...runway will allow the rapid deployment of British troops in an emergency. Although the democratically elected government of Argentine President Raúl Alfonsin has replaced the military regime that invaded the Falklands in 1982, the British-and especially the Falklanders-remain suspicious of Argentine intentions. Says Sir Rex Hunt, who as civil commissioner is in effect governor of the islands: "I think Alfonsin is an honorable man. He says the invasion was 'an illegitimate act by an illegal government in a just cause.' He is right on the first two counts. He should be convinced that...
...exhibit is called the "Wealth of the Ancient World." And the fortune that bought it is one of the largest in the modern world. Eight years ago, Multimillionaires Nelson Bunker Hunt, 58, and William Herbert Hunt, 55, set out to build the finest collection of Greek corns possible. The 166 pieces in the show, which also includes priceless vases and Hellenic and Roman bronzes, have already been on display in Detroit, Fort Worth and Richmond, Va. Last week they came to Dallas, the Hunts' home town, and the brothers dropped by the new Museum of Art for a look...