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Wild Gentleness. On the surface, his Mary Magdalene (see overleaf) seductive though she may be, seems an excessive display of virtuosity, as stilted and brittle as a piece of porcelain. But there is nothing static about the Massa Fermana polyptych. From the wild gentleness of John the Baptist to the virile saintliness of the great Pope (sometimes identified as Gregory, sometimes as Sylvester) to the sweet composure of the Madonna, the emotions change, though so subtly and silently as to be almost imperceptible. Crivelli's paintings, said Berenson himself, are "full of the deepest contrition, most tender pity...
...Fabiola, bathed in a silver mosaic tub that had been installed for Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, and gazed up at a ceiling swarming with Napoleonic cherubs. At the first formal reception, more than 2,000 top-ranking Parisians sloshed through the rainy night for a glimpse of the porcelain princess from America. After shaking 1,000 hands, the First Lady's glove was stained and she was visibly wilted, but Paris was increasingly enchanted. With each new gown and each new edition of the press, reporters reached for new superlatives and the front-page pictures grew bigger...
Though he has been at it for less than a decade, Murdock has already pieced together real estate holdings worth more than $26 million. In the past two years he has reshaped the Phoenix skyline by throwing up three major office buildings, including the town's tallest-the porcelain blue 20-story Guaranty Bank Building. Now, bent on expanding beyond Arizona, he plans to invest $20 million in baby skyscrapers in Southern California, last week broke ground for a $3,000,000 bank building in Roswell, N. Mex. "Fast as Phoenix is growing," says Murdock, "I can build office...
...long and stodgy history, the British Museum had rarely put on such a smashing show. There was something for every taste-Bronze Age jewelry, Persian miniatures, African masks, Dresden porcelain, drawings by the top Renaissance masters. But it was not the art that brought the public streaming in. The objects were the museum's most painful mistakes: fakes that had cost the museum dear in pounds and embarrassment...
...that funny. For instance, the divorced husband, realizing his error, says of his new fiancee, "I can't marry her--pushes in the bottom of chocolates." Of his former wife, he laments that he could never muster the nerve to tell her she had a delicate beauty, like white porcelain: "She'd say, 'White porcelain? You mean like the kitchen sink?'" His wife tells a veteran movie actor that she "feels like Katharine Earnshaw...