Word: midases
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Vitti and Branciaroli, two handsome and appealing actors, follow Antonioni's cue. There is little passion in their voices, even when the queen and Sebastian over come their initial distrust and become lovers to the death. No surprise here: Antonioni is the man who made aleatory music out of...
We are all Sisyphus and we are all Midas, pushing a rock of gold west to California, knowing it will never cross the continental divide, knowing it will chase us down the mountain, knowing it will crush us with the weight of a shimy dime falling from the top of...
The save was engineered by the $750 million John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, set up by the legendary Chicago insurance and real estate Midas before his death in 1978. The MacArthur group will pay the purchase price, reportedly about $250,000, to the parent Minneapolis Star and Tribune...
Despite Congress's decision six years ago to permit U.S. citizens to hold gold for the first time since 1933, few Americans were able to buy domestic gold. The smallest quantity offered by the Treasury Department in its monthly auctions before they were canceled last October was a 300...
Yet the inventions of necessity slowly gave way to the needs of mere performance. Picasso's sculpture retained its intensity almost to the end, but his painting did not, and this became clear after 1950. Without doubt, MOMA'S great exhibition ends on a dying fall. The Picassian energy is...