Word: idylle
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That is why, however incongruously, some Renis call to mind "classical" Picasso in the early '20s: both are parodies, Reni's part-subliminal and Picasso's wholly deliberate, of the same antique fantasy of ideal beings on the Mediterranean shore. The point is made by Reni's Bacchus and Ariadne...
Michael Milken, his wife and three children spent the day strolling through midtown Manhattan, looking for all the world like just another clan of holiday shoppers. But for the workaholic Milken, the idyll ended when he received some distressing news: the company that stood by him through almost two years...
The barrage of negative publicity during the past two years, starting when the Boesky case broke in 1986, has been tough on Milken's family. "The Michael Milken portrayed in the press is not the man I know and live with," said his wife Lori. Milken and Lori, who was...
Those who shun such metropolitan diversions tend to escape to Chiangmai, the cool northern town in the hills with something of the impenetrable allure of old China. Here one imagines the ghosts of opium warlords in the nearby Golden Triangle, or catches the sense of Viet Nam as one floats...
But the idyll does not last. Unfairly accused of killing one of her employers, Eva runs away and joins the Venezuelan underworld, a change that affects the direction of her life and the theme of the novel.