Word: isabellas
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...kingdom that you lost because you did not defend it like a man," which he mistakenly attributed to Cervantes [WORLD, Dec. 16]. The source of that quote was actually Sultana Ayelsha, mother of Boabdil (Abu-Abdallah), the last king of Granada. After surrendering the city to Ferdinand and Isabella in January 1492, Boabdil left Granada. On his way out, he stopped at a mountaintop to look for the last time at the beautiful city he had lost, and wept. His mother reproved him for his tears: "You do well to weep like a woman for what you could not defend...
...inspiration, radical by the standards of recent musicals, to keep his dancers' feet in the film frame, and to hold a shot long enough to anchor the loping rhythms of Choreographer Twyla Tharp. Hines taps and boogies--and acts--his way out of some preposterous plot contrivances, and Isabella Rossellini and Helen Mirren bring urgent dignity to their satellite roles...
...1960s and '70s, including Orpheus the Wearied Troubadour (1970, pictured). During this period, De Chirico reworked the haunting depictions of piazzas and faceless troubadours from the canvases of the 1910s and '20s that made him famous. There are also neo-Baroque portraits of De Chirico and his wife, Isabella, in regal 17th century attire, which display his masterly brushwork and ironic eye for melodrama...
...from the 1960s and '70s, including Orpheus the Wearied Troubadour (1970). During this period, De Chirico reworked the haunting depictions of piazzas and faceless troubadours from the canvases of the 1910s and '20s that made him famous. There are also neo-Baroque portraits of De Chirico and his wife, Isabella, in regal 17th century attire, which display his masterly brushwork and ironic eye for melodrama. De Chirico's spirit is strongest in the top-floor painter's studio, which remains just as he left it at the time of his death. Dried-up paint tubes and brushes are strewn about...
...2002’s Rodger Dodger that Eisenberg created some buzz in Hollywood. In the film, Eisenberg, playing the sexually curious nephew of the philandering lead character, was critically applauded for his ability to keep pace with Scott and the film’s other lead, veteran actress Isabella Rossellini...