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...Loeb and Krugier Gallery, they are handsome works of art, rich in double-entendres about the literary and legendary characters that they portray. Berrocal's Cleopatra, for example, is a curvaceous seductress whose voluptuous thighs, when the proper key is turned, open to reveal a red velvet jewel box inside. Her face disassembles into a bracelet that can be removed and worn by the owner. The most dramatic work is one called Alfa and Romeo, which looks like a demure pair of lovers in a hand-to-hand embrace. But wait. A sharp below-the-belt blow to Romeo...
...traded in silks and spices, but, as Ivory shows, today's Elizabethans are in the culture export-import business. The proof is provided in contradictory fragments: a sitar sits near a hi-fi rig; a girl is dubbed a beauty queen with a rhinestone coronet that matches the jewel in her nose; groupies sleep on a temple's tessellated floors...
...best melee of all was in lovely Kingsport, jewel of northeast Tennessee. I was in the heel's dressing room (heels always seem the funniest storytellers) when someone stuck his head in the door and said, "Riot!" . . . when we ran to the curtains we saw Pop fighting his way to the far doors with the aid of a couple of cops. The crowd was in a nasty mood - which was typical. By the time we got there Pop had realized he was going in the wrong direction and had started back through the howling mob to the stage...
...most austere pieces, but is nevertheless a masterful enquiry into wind dialogue. The work exhibits Stravinsky's polyphonic terseness and lucidity, and particularly his severe economy of expression in which not a single note or beat is gratuitous excess. The Octet is a collection of crystalline inflections reflecting jewel-like through the mists of Strauss' Suite. Stravinsky is the greatest master of the liberating freshness of technical discipline since Bach. His pellucid textures are never subjected to the spoilage of superfluity but rather to an intensely self-conscious merging of the intoxication of original inspiration with master-craftsmanship. The Octet...
...stylized mountains that turn up frequently in Byzantine, Italian and French illuminations. In place of the sky, he painted a decorative pattern common in Middle East miniatures. Though he had not yet learned how to model his figures to give them a more lifelike dimension, he made his flat, jewel-toned colors seem even more precious by the delicate linear tracery of the foliage and touches of gold leaf...