Word: raphaels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...style (their occupancy rates are well above the hotel industry's average of 69%) has spurred a boom in new and refurbished hostelries with deluxe accommodations for just a few hundred guests. "Americans have come of age," says Philip Pistilli, proprietor of the five-year-old, 124-room Raphael in Kansas City and its namesake in Chicago. "They now want style and service. The message of the small hotel is individual care of people...
...Chicago the antique-filled Tremont and Whitehall, both with fewer than 230 rooms and opened within the past six years, are doing so well that there is plenty of business left over for two newcomers, the year-old Raphael and the Mayfair Regent, due to open this fall. Chicago Hotelier John Coleman, who owns the Tremont, the Whitehall and Washington's Fairfax and is renovating Manhattan's Navarro for a fall reopening, has a simple guiding philosophy: make the well-heeled traveler "feel at home...
...secondary use as emblems of "savagery" to disrupt the field of "culture." The idea that Picasso had some sympathetic interest in African art as such is a complete illusion. All that counted for him was its ability to furnish alienated examples of form that clearly owed nothing to Raphael...
...Dali is often quoted as saying, "is that I am not mad." Indeed, he is not; and that is why the Pompidou Center is crowded. Dali's public hopes to meet a mind which fulfills its two ruling clichés about artists-the painter as old master (Raphael, Rubens) and the artist as freak (Van Gogh, Rimbaud). Dali gives his public a tacky, vivid caricature of both while fulfilling neither. No modern painter has armored himself more assiduously in mediocrity...