Word: nobleman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...taken with the beauty of the original that he decided merely to rearrange the parts. "The figure emerged spontaneously," he says, and it reminded him of Renaissance portraits of Italian patricians. In his antic fashion, Steinberg named his creation Il Duca di Mantova, after the playboy nobleman in Rigoletto. Bernard Pfriem, a New York painter who had worked with hat blocks before, did not change the basic form of the block either. "It was a human image, after all. My idea was to retain the identity but to metamorphose it into a new image." So he added a telephone...
...they part of a kinky Renaissance Disneyland for a bored nobleman or projections of a tortured soul? When he visited Bomarzo, Argentine Art Critic and Writer Manuel Mujica-Lainez opted for the latter. He had, moreover, an odd feeling of having been there before-perhaps in another life...
BANEFUL SORCERIES by Joan Sanders. 352 pages. Houghton Mifrlin. $6.95. The mock memoir of a French girl whose marriage to a decadent nobleman is complicated by black Masses and poisonings -some of which actually scandalized the court of Louis XIV. The author succeeds elegantly with baroque setting and sinister plot...
Died. Count Court Haugwitz Reventlow, 73, former Danish nobleman, second of Woolworth Heiress Barbara Hutton's seven husbands and father of her only son, remembered for the violent custody battle for years after their marriage broke up in 1938; of heart disease; in Manhattan...
Malinchista: traitor to the Mexican-American cause. From Mal-inche, the daughter of a Mexican nobleman, who became Cortes' mistress and aided the Spanish in their conquest of Mexico...