Word: restorationism
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Washington's Capitol guides were just beginning their chants one day last week when a tiny, blue-eyed woman with curly grey hair strode into the rotunda. While sightseers gawked, she hopped spryly on to a roped-off platform, sat down on John Trumbull's huge (13 by...
At a nearby police station, where the captives were locked up, the cops reported the haul and the damages. The haul: two 19-year-olds, one a student, the other a bartender, who said they were "crazy" about art and wanted some masterpieces of their own. The damaged paintings: Renoir...
Five federal judges decided that Novelist Kathleen Winsor is no novelist, thus bearing out the literary critics who always claimed that Forever Amber, her lusty epic of Restoration England, is no novel. The question before the court: should the $165,000 Kathleen got for movie rights to Amber be taxed...
Thwaytes carted the old picture home but never bothered to have it examined. Last year a friend showed a snapshot of Captain Thwaytes's picture to an expert in London. The expert gasped, demanded to see the picture. Sure enough, despite flaking and repeated clumsy attempts at restoration, it...
Shakespeare's maturer comedies, boasting perhaps his most modern-style pair of lovers. Benedick'and Beatrice are no pastoral swain and sweetheart, no parties to Shakespeare's pet formula of Boy Turns Into Girl. Theirs is a lively sniping contest full of sophisticated scorn; they are as...