Word: patronizing
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...full Presidium member and gave him the prestigious but honorific title of Chief of State. Finally, Khrushchev gave him power second only to his own in the party. Thus entrenched, and now a master of Kremlin power politics, Brezhnev became a leading member in the plot to oust his patron. Within hours of Khrushchev's fall, Brezhnev slipped into the slot of party chief. Since that time, he has succeeded in outmaneuvering and outdistancing his principal opponents in the Politburo-notably, Alexander Shelepin and Nikolai Podgorny. He has also managed to take over many of Premier Kosygin...
...life, the fall of '68... I was taking drivered and breaking up with my girl. I saw the show and fell in love with it." He wanted to sing 'Amsterdam', but he wanted to direct it even more. When the lights went up on Wednesday night's black tie Patron's Preview, Guy had brought off the first non-professional staging of Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris...
...pictures of their families or pets to adorn their checks, but some have seized the opportunity for more imaginative self-expression. A Chinese customer, for instance, ordered checks illustrated with a portrait of Chairman Mao. An advertising executive displays a photograph of himself seated on a soapbox, while another patron adorns his checks with a bottle of his favorite whisky. The manager of a San Rafael branch of the bank uses enigmatic checks that show a gorilla gazing Hamlet-like at a skull. "I'm not sure what it means," he admits...
...lessons of history is that art is a better preservative than Formalin, and sweeter smelling, too. Even if the patron is an outright criminal while alive, he seems, after he dies, to take on the noble and decorative character of the works of art that he bought...
...most notable examples was a prodigiously wealthy, vain and talented son of a French king, Jean, the Duke of Berry. Jean de Berry was born in 1340, and his patronage of artists changed the whole pattern of late medieval painting. "No patron of his time, and few before or after him, had a comparable effect on the arts," wrote Art Historian Millard Meiss. "Between 1380 and 1400 every great cycle of miniatures in France was commissioned by the Duke of Berry." A superb exhibition of 14th and 15th century French miniature painting, organized by Professor Meiss, is now on view...