Word: raphaels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...real problem that we could alienate voters by overcanvassing the way we did last time." Clement Freud, the talk-show wit and Liberal MR, forgivingly told a small audience in his rural constituency: "I know there are many other attractions in Tydd St. Giles." Summed up Guardian Columnist Adam Raphael: "The election shows disturbing signs of going to sleep...
Died. Moses Soyer, 74, Russian-born painter given largely to creating moody, sympathetic portraits in a traditional romantic-realistic style; in Manhattan. Soyer, whose twin brother Raphael and younger brother Isaac are also artists, came to the U.S. with his family when he was twelve. He received much of his early formal art training on Manhattan's Lower East Side, where rough-hewn street people served as his models. A diminutive man with large gentle eyes, Soyer was well known for his portrait of Fellow Artist Jack Levine and for The Green Room, a painting of three women...
...collect modern religious art. Up to the papacy of Urban VIII, who gave Bernini carte blanche to transform the face of Rome, the Vatican had a use for the best art of its time: magnificence as propaganda. The results, strung through exhausting miles of galleries and culminating in Raphael's stanze and Michelangelo's Sistine frescoes, fill the Vatican Museum. But this lofty tradition of patronage ebbed away, and by 1900 most official religious art was stranded in a sludge of gaudy plaster piety. With the exception of the gloomy Georges Rouault, not one significant modern artist...
Frederick Raphael, who co-authored the script, throught up the film's most striking flourish. Its scene is not the expected lavish suite, but a steam-bath replete with floating tea-trays and chess-games. It's a crude American vulgarization, inspired no doubt by the array of gadgetry available to backyard swimming pool aficianados, but it works wonderfully to spark dialogue-dulled attentions back onto the screen. There are little self-parodies of the film's seriousness like this throughout, and while they work to keep your attention they only attest to a certain amount of disinterestedness...
...exquisite 16th century Villa Madama, overlooking Rome from atop the bluff of Monte Mario, is normally an Italian government guest house for visiting heads of state. Originally, the formal gardens, fountains and frescoed ceilings of the villa, designed by Raphael for Pope Clement VII, provided the setting in which the Medici Pope wheedled, wheeled and dealed. Last week, that atmosphere temporarily returned. Caught in a political crisis and under orders from President Giovanni Leone to resolve it rather than resign, representatives of the parties in Premier Mariano Rumor's ruling center-left coalition gathered in the Villa Madama...