Word: raphael
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...their adopted hometown of Edmonton, Alta., the immigrant Ghermezian brothers -- Eskandar, Nader, Raphael and Bahman -- are figures swaddled in rumor and mystery. Fiercely privacyminded, they refuse to divulge their exact ages and are rarely photographed together. Their rapid-fire conversations in Farsi and French often befuddle English-speaking business peers. But from behind that fog, the four Iranian natives have created one of Canada's biggest and most spectacular real estate baronies and are quickly expanding their razzle-dazzle fiefdom southward. Before long, U.S. consumers will get a full exposure to the revolutionary marketing flair of the Ghermezians, who have...
Attorney Gerald Kroll, representing Raphael Gregorian, said he would move within the next two weeks to attach unspecified Soviet holdings in the United States unless Soviet officials change their minds and pay Gregorian...
...survived by his wife Yole E. Zariski, a daughter, Vera L. De Cola of Brookline and a son, Raphael Zariski, of Lincoln, Nebraska, and four grandchildren...
...relatively straightforward, subtly continuous modeling of the human face and figure and a wild abstract convolution and hollowing of draperies, a sense of the pure plane jutting and receding in space that surrounds his bodies with an ecstatic corona of motion. His linden- wood carving of The Archangel Raphael and the Young Tobias, 1516, is a tour de ! force of this kind. Though every crinkle of the figures' drapery looks natural, the planes of wood are whittled down to a fierce thinness, a buckling, bladelike sweep that from some angles seems to overwhelm the figure it surrounds and turn into...
...cast is generally excellent, though there is a tendency for the young lovers to be upstaged by their entertaining entourage. Chad Raphael plays Romeo with tremendous sensitivity: he elegantly balances the lover's helplessness and determination, without letting either get the better of his character. It is thus pleasantly surprising to find Peter Becker's Mercutio outdoing his friend Romeo at times. Becker's performance is especially physical; he hangs from the ceiling while teasing Romeo about his romantic affliction, and is twice as good as many of the earth-bound actors who have played the same part. Mercutio...