Word: mona
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...under a cypress tree near his only son Alexander. At last the motor cortege pulled up, and when the American woman in a black leather coat appeared, a murmur ran through the watchers. "A widow for the second time," whispered one old woman in a black shawl. A Mona Lisa smile crept briefly across Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis' face, or perhaps it was simply an involuntary grimace at a world forever watching. Behind the dark sunglasses, her look was pure enigma...
...only if dialed with care. In Connecticut's area code 203, one digit away from Washington's 202 area code, Roland Booker, a cement finisher, and his wife Mona have the same phone number as the White House. Misdirected calls meant for Richard Nixon have be come part of their lives (three months ago an ambassador rang inquiring what time he should show up for dinner). During resignation week, they received an avalanche of calls urging Nixon to remain in office. But the Bookers have no plans to change their number and frankly enjoy having an accidental...
...smile" distorted into a toothy leer. They are also drenched in evocative rhetoric about monstrous, insatiable female deities. The Women have been compared, severally and together, to the destroying Kali, to Robert Graves' White Goddess, to Alban Berg's Lulu, to Lilith and Marlene and Marilyn and Mona Lisa. Now obviously these drawings do have their demonic aspect - the air of Woman, circa 1951, with her staring black pupils, bared teeth and cuirass-like breasts, testifies to that; they are not just formal exercises. It certainly seems that De Kooning finds it hard to imagine women in other...
Bronowski often bridges the gap between the two cultures, discoursing on everything from the Mona Lisa to the construction of Rheims Cathedral. He demonstrates how the flowering of art and architecture was a natural out growth of expanding knowledge in mathematics and the rules of perspective. Bronowski also corrects the popular notion that the Industrial Revolution simply forced man to give up rural pleasures for urban horrors. This revolution, he points out, freed man from age-old social strictures, creating a new aristocracy of talent...
...tables and chests of drawers were unframed paintings by Braque, Chagall and Rouault, and photographs of Malraux's own beloved cats. Once a chain-smoker, he has given up cigarettes and alcohol and looks younger than he has in years. "Did you know," he asked, "that the Mona Lisa hung in the bathrooms of Francois I, Louis XIV and Napoleon?* Francois I, well, that was normal because he bought it from Leonardo. It was not so logical in the case of Louis XIV, because in his reign the great painter was Raphael. And in Napoleon's day, Leonardo...