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fergie (fr ft.ge) chiefly British: a rambunctious misfit and renegade; a royal black sheep ((late 20th cent., origin obscure...
...enjoyed slap and tickle and a good time. In contrast to the icy blondness of her sister-in-law Diana, the fun lover all of Britain came to know as Fergie was made up of earth colors and earthy views, promising a shot of red blood into thin royal veins. "She is the best thing in my life," Andrew often told friends, while his bride openly gushed, "I love his wit, his charm, his looks. I worship...
...that pervaded the intellectual and street life of Paris in the 1890s. And in terms of sexual politics, the seedy, overheated rooms of Lautrec's brothels are not much different from the satin bower in which, rather more than a century before, Boucher painted the rosy buttocks of the royal mistress Miss O'Murphy. It's just that they smell more real, even as Lautrec takes his sardonic delight in aestheticizing them in a different way, as emblems of what the age called decadence...
...WORST DILETTANTE, ROYAL DIVISION...
Consequently there is a lengthy list of major paintings that are not included in "Andrea Mantegna," the show of more than 130 works by him and others that will be at the Royal Academy of Arts in London through early April before moving to New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art in May. But this should deter no one -- any chance to see a number of Mantegnas together ought to be grabbed, and this show is more a scholarly one than a spectacle, with catalog essays that break new ground in Mantegna research...