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Caravaggio's sense of theater furnished a host of imitators with a fresh vocabulary. The Caravaggisti were not a closely knit group or even a specially gifted one-though they included some painters of undeniable power, like Orazio Gentileschi. They assiduously imitated Caravaggio's chiaroscuro. The manner spread to France and The Netherlands. Georges de La Tour's candlelit night pieces, for instance, sprang from it, and Hendrick Terbrugghen used it with distinction. But his influence stimulated no great painters in Rome, for, by then, there were none left to stimulate. The grand vindication came later, when...
...concern is that the children will lose part of the close-knit community's ancient cultural heritage. "At least that's what they say to you," one Chinese-American teacher contends. "But if you could speak Chinese, you'd learn they just don't want their children going to school with blacks." As of last week, at least 3,000 Chinese children were still boycotting the schools...
...origins in the 19th century, when it was used by athletes intent on working up a healthy sweat. Today, after a lapse of several years, sweater fever is once again gripping the fashion world. In Manhattan, Paris, Los Angeles and London, the young are falling upon gaudily decorated knit tops like moths upon tweed. Top-ranking designers such as Bill Blass, Anne Klein, Valentino and Yves St. Laurent are making the sweater an essential part of their new layered-look lines. Those twin oracles of the fashion world, Vogue and Eugenia Sheppard, agree on its popularity: "Fashion is a sweater...
Since late summer, sweater sales have soared. Says a Saks Fifth Avenue spokesman: "Sweaters have been fantastic all over the store." In Saks' junior department, the most popular examples have been the ribbed turtleneck, the flat knit with the plain round neck, and the sleeveless "shrinks"-short, tight numbers. In the designer departments, the bestsellers have been Anne Klein's high-necked sweater with buttons on the shoulders and Bill Blass's long-sleeved U-neck. "When we get in a new shipment from either one," says a Saks spokesman, "they're almost gone...
...were spellbound as a young French p.r. girl in the audience peeled during the course of the show. First to be shed was a navy blue cardigan. Then a sleeveless, striped blue pullover fluttered down, followed by a long-sleeved sweater. Au fond was a sleeveless, almost backless silky knit navy turtleneck -a dazzling outfit clearly designed for energetic dancing at top chic nightclubs as the evening wears...