Word: medici
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There is the Florence of Leo X, the Medici pope, who ruled in hedonist splendor, true to his dictum: "Let us enjoy the Papacy, now that God has given it to us." That Florence is preserved in the proud perfection of the city's stones...
...have any friends who are Lampoon editors, you'll recognize them in the photographs which spot the magazine. They're as funny as Lampoon editors can be, in their quaint alcoholic attitudes. The drawings of Maria de Medici and the parody of Grant Wood's "American Gothic" are excellent. The advertisements are exciting, and for twenty-five cents, this Lampoon parody is a worthwhile souvenir of the game...
...Premier Léon Blum, who rooms in Marie de Medici's Palace of the Luxemburg and pays rent in proportion to the amount of furniture he uses, attended to a personal matter before he departed for the U.S. to ask a $2,500,000,000 loan. He asked the French Government, please, to take away some of the furniture...
...Pepsi-Cola's President Walter S. Mack Jr. has not been a happy man. Try as he did to stay behind the curtains and let a group of painters run the show, painters and critics alike seemed inclined to gang up on him as a soda-pop Medici, a bumbling Borgia (TIME...
...photographer] refrained from comment on her streamlined figure, which is neither Canadian nor classic." Then, presumably as the classic, you give us the measurements of Venus de Milo. It is not Venus de Milo who is regarded by classicists as having the classic figure. It is Venus de' Medici...