Word: raphael
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...color in a performance that merely adds another great stone profile to his gallery of semi-classical parts. Harrison, puncturing the most pontifical utterances with a tongue sharpened for wit, climbs roughshod over his talented hirelings-among them Bramante (Harry Andrews), the architect of St. Peter's, and Raphael (Tomas Milian), who appears to be impersonating a painting, not a painter...
Making capital of Frederic Raphael's brittle screenplay, Director Schlesinger never lets his unsavory subject lapse into cheapness and sensationalism. His weapon is satire, spelled out in a caustic picture essay on London society's fags, hypocrites and well-heeled fashion setters, who can lionize a pop artist with no claim to distinction except a five-year stretch in jail. And by shrugging off sex, dryly noting its acceptance as a sort of public utility, Darling succeeds where other entries in the movie sleepstakes fumble. The sharpest asides occur in Capri, where the future principessa and her homosexual...
...like a boys' prep school mess hall, the talk is still music. And even when participants joke about the master ("There is a man called Roody,/Who never seems too moody"), the remarkable gentleness and modesty of Rudolf Serkin inspires utmost respect and admiration. Said Israeli Cellist Raphael Sommer, who came from Paris just for Marlboro: "It is a great lesson in humility for me to study under such great men as Serkin and Casals. It is an incredible spiritual uplift-like a ray of sunshine from those above us. And to actually play with them-with...
...even when he died. Historians passed him by, and the only accounts he left of his own life are nagging reminders of the difficulty he had collecting payment for his paintings. One can perhaps forgive his age for slighting Girolamo Romanino. It was, after all, in love with Raphael, Leonardo, Titian and Michelangelo...
...become stranger and stranger. Freed from the chore of sticking slavishly to the surface likeness, the artist today is free to probe more than skin-deep. The result often produces a psychological study in depth that eludes even the roving camera's eye. Or, in the instance of Raphael Soyer's Homage to Thomas Eakins (opposite), it can bring to life a whole galaxy of familiar figures, bound together by the unifying vision of one man who knew and admired them...