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...needed only six crates to hold the most important items. The first scheduled to be rescued: Leonardo da Vinci's Ginevra de' Benci. Other works include paintings by Jan Vermeer, a postcard-size depiction of St. George and the Dragon by Rogier van der Weyden, and Raphael's Alba Madonna. Initially, plans called for the paintings to be taken to Mount Weather and hung on the walls there, arranged not by artist or period but by the size of the canvas. Curators were worried, however, that the site's humidity would destroy the paintings. Victor Covey, then the gallery...
...four sorceresses are splendid: Plowright in high Lady Bracknell form, accommodating herself to happiness; Walker, sensationally poised and pretty, radiating a soigne sexiness; Richardson (Dance with a Stranger) as a sad Madonna doomed to fidelity; and Lawrence, a TV comedy star, as a liberated slave gaily savoring her freedom...
...Montagnier knows his virus. He knows firsthand that it alters its genetic code as often as Madonna changes her persona, and thus could easily hide from a blood test. And when perplexed scientists turned to him for answers to the unsettling questions raised in Amsterdam, he delivered his views with the stoic self-assurance that has become his trademark...
Many critics applauded Madonna for hiring poor gay Blacks, Latinos and Asians to work as dancers on her tour. hooks point out that these same critics usually ignored the way Madonna was portrayed as the cutely condescending mother/dictator of a troop of exotics and emotional cripples...
...essay lays bare how Madonna's supposedly taboo-breaking movie pigeon-holed these groups into lifeless stereotypes. Shedding a harsh light on the pop goddess, hooks reveals how much of Madonna's act is the "same old nonsense" in a pointy...