Word: patronizer
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...came through our mail slot, like Time, Reader's Digest, the Saturday Evening Post and, yes, The New Yawker. I enjoyed the humor in these magazines more than any child of my acquaintance, And of all the humorists, Ogden Nash was the one who in my little reliquary acquired patron-saintance. Soon my Nashophilia had so far ripened That I plopped down 35 cents of my hard-begged weekly stipend And bought "The Pocket Book of Ogden Nash," for its was worth all that money To possess a collection of Nash's best poems, or at least those that...
DIED. DOLORES OLMEDO PATINO, 88, prickly art patron who housed the world's biggest collection of works by Mexican painters Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, his wife; in Mexico City. Rivera willed his and Kahlo's works to Mexico, leaving Olmedo Patino, a former Rivera model and friend, in charge of the trust controlling them. Though she founded a museum dedicated to the couple, she drew criticism for her derision of Kahlo (who, she said, was famous only because of her marriage to Rivera) and her tight rein on the artists' works and archives, which she kept for long periods...
INVESTMENT Caught in a Bear Trap Swiss multimillionaire and bow-tied shareholder activist Martin Ebner, who has made a career out of being a thorn in the side of Switzerland's corporate establishment, sees himself as the Swiss equivalent to that patron saint of U.S. shareholders, investor Warren Buffett. Lately, though, Ebner has had a few setbacks. Last week he was forced to sell controlling stakes in four key investment funds. BZ Group, Ebner's holding company, made the sale after the share prices of the firms in which the funds held stock plunged. But while Ebner may have always...
...Which brings me to Sophia Loren. We would call her statuesque, but that barely does the young Loren justice; so iconic is her voluptuousness, it would be fairer to call statues Sophiaesque. She was married to producer Carlo Ponti, but she didn't need a patron to get good roles. She was "The Miller's Beautiful Wife," a Mario Camerini comedy co-starring de Sica and a calflike Mastroianni. She appeared in de Sica's "Gold of Naples" with Mangano and the clown Toto...
...finest examples of this in his work, and in this show, is his portrait of the Duchess of Osuna with her husband and family, 1787-88. Related to half the noblest clans in Spain, she was the most cultivated, educated and liberal woman of her age: patron of writers and artists (including, notably, Goya), with her own theater where new plays by the leading dramatists of the day were given, her own chamber orchestra to play Haydn and Boccherini to her guests, and a deep involvement with issues of women's rights and education. She gazes at us with...