Word: oberland
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...Swiss tennis officials presented him with Juliette, a prize cow. But you don't have to be a tennis star to own a fine Swiss bovine. Nina, Beate and Britta are big brown cows that spend their days grazing the picturesque Alpine meadows above Brienz, in Switzerland's Bernese Oberland-and they're for rent...
...power of organization was awesome; his spread of quotation, wide. What caused the individual citations to hang together, though, was his eye for nature. Nowhere is this clearer than in his huge composition of 1937, The Mountain. Every one of the figures on this plateau of the Bernese Oberland is quoted from somewhere else--the girl lying down in the foreground comes from a Poussin, and so on. The green-capped rocks are real, but they are also inspired by Courbet's landscapes. But what so lifts the picture is its soft, rapturous golden light, bathing every complicated shape...