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...miracles. It was done by an unknown artist, either an Italian or a Byzantine Greek, in the second third of the 13th century. It looks stiff and archaic, yet the painter has infused a remarkable energy into some of its details, such as the calligraphic loops on the blue robe of a madwoman from whose mouth an exorcised devil is escaping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: From Assisi's Treasury | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

...blend At a banquet, Mrs. Clinton donned an ahrouy, a type of robe, and tahrouyt, an ornate shawl. Chelsea wore a more modest shepherd's robe and head wrap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Road with Hillary and Chelsea | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

...French critics and public hated it--and her. The other is a painting of a fashionable gynecologist named Dr. Samuel Pozzi, renowned in Paris for his exquisite tastes and the breadth of his affairs, including one with Mme. Gautreau. He rises before one's eyes in a flaring crimson robe with a velvet curtain behind him, one hand on his breast, looking like some 16th-arrondissement Don Giovanni protesting the sincerity of his intentions. The pairing of the New Orleans siren and her reputed lover set off a frenzy of gossip, and Sargent, more than a little unnerved, presently decamped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A True Visual Sensualist | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...frequent a visitor that Emerson's children regarded him as a member of the family. On view in the nursery are the children's 18th century rocking horse and a dollhouse with the original handmade furnishings. Articles of Emerson's clothing--his tall beaver hat, the "Gaberlunzie" robe he probably wore when he got up early and his wife Lydian slept late--hang in other rooms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Family: Little Concord's Literary Largesse | 3/15/1999 | See Source »

LISTEN UP Chief Justice William Rehnquist may want to bring the libretto next time he goes to a Gilbert and Sullivan show. He has said that he put four gold stripes on his robe in imitation of a costume he saw on the Lord Chancellor in Iolanthe. Bad choice. The Lord Chancellor describes his duties this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Feb. 1, 1999 | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

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