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...contrast, Cuomo offered as the patron of his party's principles the man G.K. Chesterton called "the world's one quite sincere democrat," St. Francis of Assisi. The wealthy 13th century Italian, a man-about-town who was "born again" and founded the Franciscan order, is a Cuomo favorite. The Governor suggested that if St. Francis were alive today, his ascetic devotion to the poor, sick and oppressed might have led him to progressive politics and the ideals of the Democratic Party. Though Republicans may jeer at Cuomo's sudden secularization of a saint and dismiss...
...ardor of the American rich for the Italian Renaissance, so Fenollosa was busy shaping American taste for Oriental art. He adored Whistler's work, calling him "the nodule, the universalizer, the interpreter of East to West." Freer concurred, and in the 1890s he became Whistler's chief patron - not always an easy role, since Whistler could go for the hand that fed him like an amphetamine-crazed Doberman. Freer also consulted Whistler about his Oriental purchases, so that in Washington one can see some highly informative parallels between Whistler's work and his taste in other...
...hotels, corporate headquarters and airports. They are not aimed only at collectors. "We do some advertising in ARTnews, but we also advertise in Architectural Digest, " says Johnson. "That's where the money and power for outdoor sculpture is." In the art world Johnson has been as much a patron as a producer. He has provided substantial funding for the International Sculpture Center, a Washington arts foundation, and created a subsidiary, the Public Art Trust. But, he says, "mostly I've used my money to start my atelier and sculpture-casting foundry." This facility, located near Trenton...
...they can convince anyone that there were tapes, Pancoast's lawyers will try to make Morgan's relationship with Bloomingdale a central focus of the murder trial. Morgan was 17 and married when she met Bloomingdale in 1970. He paid for her divorce and remained an unstinting patron through her two other brief marriages. Morgan received up to $18,000 a month in allowance from Bloomingdale. She was usually paid by check through one of his companies, in return for her companionship and "therapy" for what she called the aging millionaire's "Marquis de Sade complex." Morgan...
...that geisha's lives do not revolve around men. Geisha take lovers and have parlors who give them money and support them. Taking a patron is never obligatory and, unlike most Japanese women, geisha don't feel an intense social pressure to marry...