Word: mediterranean
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...seem beautifully rendered but fringed with banality into real, unforced poetry. Take, for instance, Central Park Looking North, 1967. A chilly, wet day in New York, seen through a metal casement window. An antique statue of a faun on the sill, far in space and temperature from his native Mediterranean. And high on the brick wall of the apartment building to the left, a pink patch: a ray of sun breaking through winter's grisaille. Surely Koch had been thinking of the "little patch of yellow wall" in Vermeer's View of Delft, the last thing Proust's connoisseur Bergotte...
...SOUTHERN EUROPE Winter Hits with a Vengeance Winter came suddenly to southern Europe. Snowstorms swept Mediterranean coasts, cutting off villages in Corsica and bringing temperatures of -10?C to Turin and Madrid. Greece was badly affected, with more than 300 northern villages snowed in, all northern airports closed and 2 m drifts halting a train for 17 hours near the northern village of Petrades. In Turkey a man froze to death in Istanbul as snow cut off access to thousands of villages. Heavy rain caused floods that claimed seven lives...
...people of any kind, for that matter--ever get: an enviably happy life, whose pleasures never reduced him to complacency. He was well off--and generous in buying his friends' pictures. He was talented. He loved the sea and was able to exercise that love by constantly cruising the Mediterranean coast of France in an 11-m cutter christened, in homage to Edouard Manet's infamous nude, the Olympia. (His first and much smaller boat he named, to show his artistic affiliations, the Manet-Zola-Wagner, a heavy cargo for a mere day sailer to carry.) He "discovered" St.-Tropez...
...power. If only the rest of the album had as much attitude. The transition from the valkyrie voice of the first track where Merchant sings, “Soon come the day / When this tinder box / Is going to blow in your face,” to the domesticated, Mediterranean post-card song, “Motherland,” disorients the listener like holiday jet-lag. Merchant ensconces herself amongst accordions and harmlessly strummed banjos singing, “Motherland, cradle me / Close my eyes, lullaby me to sleep / Keep me safe, lie with me / Lay beside me, don?...
...Museum and commissioner of this exhibition, explains that although Alexander the Great ruled Afghanistan for only three years [330-327 B.C.] and died in his early 30s, his adventures and the mystique that surrounded them helped build yet another of the bridges to Afghanistan, this time reaching from the Mediterranean...