Word: isabel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gloomy!" she cried to friends gathered at the small cafe in Madrid. "When I get out, we will go to the country and roast a lamb." With that, Luisa Isabel Alvarez de Toledo Maura, 32, Duchess of Medina Sidonia, crossed the street to a courthouse to begin serving a one-year prison sentence. The duchess, whose title* is one of the most venerated in her country, was convicted of illegal protest when she led the villagers of Palomares on a protest trip to Madrid on the first anniversary of the crash of a U.S. bomber bearing a load...
...wandered over to Inga when Targets ended and was surprised to find the former home of Doctor Doolittle and Gone With The Wind looking and smelling a little like the bowels of the Indoor Athletic Building. I'm not really qualified to tell you whether Inga makes Therese and Isabel look like a milk-fed puppy, not having seen the former film or The Fox; the ads claim that the screen begins to steam, a verb best reserved for about 20 per cent of the audience, but I guess in all fairness a bubble does rise to the surface...
...first how-to books, it was much cribbed and often illuminated; the loveliest of the versions that survive is an edition with gold leaf on vellum that once belonged to Ferdinand and Isabel of Spain. It can now be seen in a display of medieval masterworks at The Cloisters in Manhattan. The miniaturist is unknown, but he seems to have followed the hunt almost as well as his author, perhaps even ridden to hounds with...
Most of the canvases he paints depict pulpy male nudes who couple lewdly on beds or sit like withdrawn junkies in cell-like boxes. The current show also includes many grotesquely distorted portraits of his friends, among them George Dyer, his studio assistant, Isabel Rawsthorne, wife of Composer Alan Rawsthorne, and Painter Lucian Freud, Sigmund's grandson. On one canvas, a hypodermic syringe rises from what looks like a well-beaten body, while in a corner of another a bird that has been plucked stark naked screeches desperately on his perch...
...Therese & Isabel--Makes The Fox look like a milk-fed puppy, for whatever that's worth. At the HARVARD...