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Kuhn points to a Self-Portrait by Max Beckman, the Reclining Nymph by George Donner, and a Tyrolese Standing Madonna of the early fifteenth-century as the outstanding treasures of the collection...
...Nymph on a Gambol. Unlike Balanchine, who drills his girls until they look like so many identical windup dolls, Joffrey encourages his dancers to express their own personalities. Feathery Lisa Bradley, 20, is a fragilely beautiful study in symmetry; fiery Luis Fuente, 20, is built like a blockbuster and has the same impact; sinuous Trinette Singleton, 19, dances like a sensuous nymph out for a gambol; and then there is airborne Robert Blankshine, 19, who has mastered the neat little trick of sailing into the wings as he kicks the back of his head. They all help give the Joffrey...
...statue in the whole town," lamented Miss Liberty to Miss Diana in O. Henry's The Lady Higher Up. There she stood, Di ana, goddess of the hunt, poised with her bow and arrow high above Manhattan's old Madison Square Garden, a slim, exquisitely proportioned nymph shimmering in the sun. And in the years from 1892 to 1925, she brought to rambunctious New York just a little of the glory that was Greece...
Died. Margaret Kennedy, 71, British author, who in 1924 scored an international bestseller with The Constant Nymph, a bittersweet portrait of an erratic musician's seven free-spirited children, produced 17 other novels (1964's Not in the Calendar), most of them skillfully told tales with intricate plots; in Adderbury, Oxfordshire...
...first 65 years, Washington's collection was nothing to show anyone. Founded in 1879, it consisted mainly of odds and ends cast off by Missourians: embossed beer tankards, a Greek vase collection, a marble mountain nymph by a local artist (now in a university library and known to undergraduates as "the White Rock Girl"). Then, in 1945, Curator Horst W. Janson, aided by a committee, weeded out 125 paintings and 500 pieces of bric-a-brac, auctioned off the lot for $40,000. The money was used to purchase 28 paintings, sculptures, collages and tapestries by Picasso, Braque, Moore...