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Soon Woodside got to thinking this was all a bit too showy. "Typical nouveau riche" sniffed a neighbor. Hurt, Galvin packed up his Irish-born wife and five children in 1958 and moved to a 35,000-acre ranch near Santa Barbara. Ostensibly, he wanted to offer riding room for the U.S. Olympic riding team, of which his daughter Trish was a star. That seemed fine-until last October, when John A. T. Galvin abruptly shut down the ranch, closed down the school he had started for his children, loaded up his prize Irish horses and left for Dublin...
...jour today, however; on the hotel's door a tiny sign reads: "Closed for vacation." In another of Sivard's pictures, a Parisian nun is emerging from a Metro station with the frosted-glass peacock's fan of the canopy forming a sort of art nouveau halo behind the good sister's head...
...vibrant rhythms of his brush linked him to the swirling style of art nouveau, but what in that art was precious and affected became in Munch a swirl of passion, often equal to that of Van Gogh. One of his first major paintings, inspired by the death of a sister, was called The Sick Child, and all his life sickness and death, suffering and fear were to be his themes. His people could cry out and the sky would seem torn apart. They might wander blankly down a street, eyes sick with anxiety, together but each alone. Few artists have...
While you are perhaps right that some of the nouveau society will not cross Park Avenue, I do so for the pleasure of my stomach, for la bonne table. LUDWIG BEMELMANS New York City
...intellectual weekly Nouveau Candide was desolated: "The Atlantic Alliance is disintegrating...