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...crates were soon pried away to reveal the two sections of what Moore called Reclining Figure, wallowing high and dry like a pair of sunburnt whales. The setting would have made Michelangelo turn green with envy: a tree-dotted promenade designed for people bound for cultural experiences. Said Moore, 67, on hand to supervise the installation: "I like the idea of the space being surrounded by controlled building." The bronze will sit, unpedestaled, as the centerpiece of a 120-ft. by 80-ft. reflecting pool, surrounded by the elevations of the late Eero Saarinen's Vivian Beaumont Theater...
...young feeling infected even Balenciaga, who at 72 is considered the Michelangelo of the trade. The master put his hostesses in white stretch pants under taupe chiffon or gold lamé topped by an ermine poncho. Sauciest fillip was a see-through chiffon muumuu worn over a flesh-colored skintight jump suit. And Pierre Cardin exposed his pound of flesh through circular cutouts scattered at strategic points on his dresses -here at the collarbone, there smack dab over the navel. He also wolfishly evoked Little Red Riding Hood, with dozens of furry capped capes...
...died. Historians passed him by, and the only accounts he left of his own life are nagging reminders of the difficulty he had collecting payment for his paintings. One can perhaps forgive his age for slighting Girolamo Romanino. It was, after all, in love with Raphael, Leonardo, Titian and Michelangelo...
...DESERT. Director Michelangelo Antonioni's first color film is a provocative, painterly essay on alienation in a young wife (Monica Vitti) whose troubles appear to be a byproduct of heavy industry in Ravenna...
Last week, at the National Catholic Eucharistic Congress in Pisa-where Galileo, according to legend, dropped a cannonball and a bullet from the leaning tower to prove that objects of different weights fall with the same velocity-Pope Paul VI formally praised Galileo, along with Dante and Michelangelo, as "great spirits" of "immortal memory...