Word: orientale
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(Japanese for very close and sultry). I threw that in to add a touch of Oriental mystery.
The disease was well advanced when Aleijadinho was given the commission that became his crowning life's work, decorating the Church of Bom Jesus do Matosinhos. For the stairway he chose as his subject not the curved elegance of cherubim and seraphim that had made him famous, but stern...
Langdon Warner '03, late curator of Oriental Art at the Fogg Art Museum was honored posthumously yesterday by the Japanese government for promoting appreciation of Japanese art throughout the world.
"I beg you," Cambodia's impetuous young King Norodom Sihanouk entreated his subjects in a surprise broadcast last March, "permit me to leave my gilded cage." With that, he turned over the monarchy's six-tiered parasol to his father, Suramarit. After 14 years on the throne, 32...
Princely Portrait. As King, Sihanouk enjoyed tootling a saxophone, composing love ballads, keeping race horses and elephants, a troop of dancing girls and a harem of concubines. But he was no mere playboy Oriental monarch. He also helped to win his country's freedom from French colonial rule, led...