Word: medici
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suggestion that the Ford family build a Medici-like palace in downtown Detroit, though the observation prompting it--that one source of urban problems is that the American rich are a national upper class rather than a group of local coteries--is an astute...
...place be turned over to the Government at her death, along with a $200,000 per-annum trust fund for upkeep. Mar-A-Lago is a treasure of colonnades and turrets, built of stone from Italy, 36,000 tiles made in 15th century Spain, frescoes copied from the Medici Palace in Florence, silk needlework panels from the Venetian Doge's palace. Suites are done in Louis XVI style or in Spanish or Early American. Outside are a nine-hole golf course and archipelagoes of reflecting pools and fountains...
...form a single circle of life, and voilà it is genesis time. Nijinsky is given life and immediately departs for Diaghilev's Ballet Russe, which represents earthly paradise. Thereafter, the graceful and the grotesque prance the stage in some of the longest, slowest processionals since Catherine de Medici introduced ballet spectacle to the court of France in the late 16th century. Nymphs, whores and clowns flutter merrily about. Morality figures of death and madness strut menacingly. The serpent, dressed in a red flapperesque wig and pelvis-pinching tights, snakes sneakily around her victims. Nijinsky ascends the cross...
...Peace mobilized artists more than any other issue, at least since World War II," H. Stuart Hughes said. The market for the arts has widened from the few Medici-rich-family commissions to the mass public, thus making possible fund raising in the form of auctions and sales. At a time when artists are regrouping to paint individual pictures, it seems reasonable to from groups to sell their works and support their beliefs...
...Yomuiriland. But it is in Brazil, where a tropical climate leaves no alternative, that plastic skiing has demonstrated its greatest appeal. In the past four years, 300,000 persons have driven the long dirt road that winds past lush palm, orange and banana trees to get to the President Medici Ski Station in the southern town of Garibaldi (pop. 8,000). There, on a steep hillside, are two plastic-covered ski runs, four chalets and a 40-chair lift...