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...lady's matter-of-fact self-assessment: "I am a bitch." Many in Israel agree. The late Levi Eshkol called her a shrew. Yitzhak Raphael, a National Religious Party leader, labeled her a liar. She has been threatened with murder and having acid thrown in her eyes. She is sometimes tailed by thugs, and she gets more hate mail than an Arab sympathizer. Says former Education Minister Zalman Aranne: "She leaves scorched people and scorched earth behind...
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...
...because the Aquarium at present suffers from only one inadequacy-it does not have many fish. Besides, many of its tenants are regrettably ordinary, so a visit isn't like walking through an art museum which in its modesty could only exhibit two Picassos, half a dozen Klees, a Raphael, a Degas, and a Breughel, scattered among thirty rooms. In fact, I was becoming impatient as I looked at that garish wave, and demanded that Huntley lead me to the whales. So he pointed out the picture of a breaching blue whale...
Every known Raphael or Bruegel has long since found a permanent home. But there is still a floating supply of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works that demonstrate the buyer's sound yet "modern" taste. As a result, there seems no way for such works to go but up. Even the $230,000 paid for a minor Matisse, Fete des Fleurs a Nice, more than doubled the artist's record price of $106,152, set only a year ago. For Impressionists, the trade's present rule of thumb is that what $1 would buy in 1893 would cost...
...first task in the reconstruction was restoring the Baroque 18th century Zwinger (literally, the Keep). In 1946, 150 master stonemasons went to work; it took them 16 years to complete the job. Alongside the Zwinger, Semper's famous Gemaldegalerie (Art Gallery) once again exhibits Raphael's Sistine Madonna, twelve Rembrandts (including his Portrait of Saskia), 1 6 Rubenses, five Titians and two Vermeers. Gaetano Chiaveri's Baroque 18th century Hofkirche (Court Church) is finished and used regularly for Catholic services. The old Landhaus (Statehouse), an imposing mansion reminiscent of Versailles, has been turned into a museum...