Word: raphaels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lostthe power to get high on ordinary grass. He was one of a group of artists who emerged from a backwater of painting, Germany, at the start of the 19th century. They inherited no secure historical position. Their diversity was extreme. Some left Germany for Rome and Raphael; others remained at home, seeking a continuity with the Gothic past; their images ran a gamut from Blakean vision to the tightest realism. From this jumble rose a group whose imagination transcended the constraint of their circumstances; they are represented in a fascinating show, "German Painting in the 19th Century...
...billboards might be masterpieces. The fact that the Cezanne, next to Leonardo da Vinci's Ginevra de' Bend (which cost about $5,000,000) is the costliest new picture in Washington does not mean it can be "put up against" Bellini's Feast of the Gods, Raphael's Alba Madonna, or even the museum's other and better Cezannes. Its interest is mainly historical. Cezannes of this date are rare. Even the ineptitudes of this gawkily powerful portrait-such as the clumsy handling of the trousers and the armchair-have a certain interest...
...tricked out in crushed-velvet pantsuits by Yves St. Laurent, open with the springy "L'Amour du Métier" (The Love of Show Business). As they sing, they flit in and out of a flashing construction of steel tubes designed by the Venezuelan painter Jesús Raphael Soto. Then the Tiller Girls, 16 bright British birds whose forebears were the original inspiration for the Radio City Rockettes, descend from the ceiling in sentinel boxes. Their number is followed by blonde-wigged nudes and a sleekly sophisticated pas de deux executed by a pair of Petit...
Sylvie's epigrammatic style epitomizes what Europeans call the feuilleton -writing characterized by witticisms, plays on words, learned references and clever insults. Some of her targets feel that she is not all that clever. When Yitzhak Raphael was being considered for Golda Meir's coalition Cabinet, Sylvie charged-in the words of the libel suit that Raphael later brought against her-"that he pretended, and still pretends to hold an academic title to which he is not entitled." She also said that he had "strange associations with very dubious people-a man who has underground connections, a card...
...Raphael did get furious, but when he sued, Sylvie promptly countersued him for calling her a liar. For twelve weeks Sylvie's trial was the talk of Tel Aviv. As her witnesses gave evidence against Raphael, Sylvie sat demurely hatless in maxiskirts. The trial ended last week when Raphael and Sylvie both agreed to drop their charges, and each signed a statement that neither had meant the other any harm. "Most of my friends," said Sylvie later, "were sorry I did not continue with the case. I wanted to, goodness knows. I still had enough new maxis to wear...