Word: saskia
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...escape the domination of their old-fashioned families, who want them to stay in the house and accept an arranged marriage. Peasant women have lost their traditional role in society; low-wage jobs have taken the place of a poor but independent subsistence life on the land. Political Economist Saskia Sassen-Koob of Columbia University has described the process that has created a growing female labor force as the "feminization of the job supply...
...approach the beautiful, sure clarity with which Rem brandt set down, in a few streaks and slashes of bistre, a windmill facing the estuary from an old bulwark of Amsterdam. Nor could they rival the depth of Rembrandt's grasp of gesture, expression and character. A drawing like Saskia 's Lying-in Room evokes, in the space between the shadowed head of Rembrandt's pregnant wife and the sewing hands of her nurse, a domestic silence so intense that one can almost hear the tick of cooling embers in the grate. Once again the Morgan Library, eschewing...
...which opens this week in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., is provocative but tantalizingly incomplete. The Hermitage has, for instance, 23 Rembrandts, and Hammer & Co. managed to extract just two, painted some 20 years apart. One is a tender portrait of Rembrandt's young bride Saskia, resting her hand on her presumptively pregnant belly; the other is a magnificent, hauntingly evocative biblical work painted when intimations of mortality obsessed the artist. There is a marvelous Chardin that Catherine herself commissioned to depict the "Attributes of the Arts." There is an exquisite early Gainsborough that looks ahead...
...cast is superb. The two parents, Nagg (Tom Costello) and Nell (Saskia Noordhoek Hegt), are like moths whose wings have iced. They flutter feebly, not in the text's ash bins, but in a laundry hamper and a G.E. refrigerator carton. Their crippled son Hamm (Gerry Bamman) treats the universe as a sorry joke, his servant Clov (Larry Pine) as a straight man, and his fate as a glorious chance to play M.C. in death's cabaret...
...Portrait of Sylvette David-1954; 52. Portrait of J.R. with Roses-1954; 53. Woman by a Window-1956; 54. Aries: The Arena in Front of the Rhone-1960; 55. Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe-1961; 56. The Artist and His Model-1963; 57. Rembrandt and Saskia-1963; 58. The Sabines-1963; 59. Femme Couchée-1964; 60. Tête d'Homme-1969; 61. Pierrot and Harlequin...