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TIEPOLO emphasized the celestial setting by drawing figures sotto or placing them on a physical level above the view??. "Flying Angels," drawn from an underneath perspective, incorporates the confidence of the baroque artist-the bo?dness in line, a shift of the object off center, movement the feeling of depth as the angel recedes into the sky. Many of these drawings with unusual perspectives were sketches for his famed ceilings. In such a series of sketches for the Palazzo Trento (=72-?6). Tiepolo communicates the vitality and spontaneity attributed...
Premeditated Effort. No one more vividly personifies the new practitioner than Irving Louis Horowitz, 40, a shaggy, disarmingly unprofessorial professor who lectures without a tie, lambastes most of his colleagues, and delivers endless sotto voce manifestos. "I'm making a conscious, premeditated effort to radicalize sociology," says Horowitz. In pursuit of this goal, he passed up more lucrative offers last summer to accept the chairmanship of the sociology department of the Livingston campus of New Jersey's Rutgers University...
...Bellow. By contrast, Europe is far ahead of the U.S. in noise abatement. Two years ago, Baron imported a muffled air compressor from Germany. With a well-honed sense of the dramatic, he demonstrated it beside the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center. Though the machine did not operate sotto voce, neither did it bellow. One U.S. manufacturer, Ingersoll-Rand, was sufficiently impressed to start producing a similar line of quiet compressors (from $30 to $4,500 more expensive than the unmuffled varieties...
...series of interviews with TIME Reporter Jay Cocks, Farrow, speaking in her sotto voce that raises "Good morning" to the level of a state secret, took some of those particles and put them together in vaguely chronological order. In nearly every respect, Farrow began as Hoffman's polar opposite. He was outside show business with his nose pressed up against the window. In Hollywood, Mia was Old Money: her father was Director John Farrow, her mother Actress Maureen O'Sullivan. The third of seven children, Mia was always the vulnerable one. "I got all the diseases," she recalls, "including polio...
While preparing for the opening curtain of La Gioconda at Miami's Dade County Auditorium, Tenor Richard Tucker suddenly noticed an air-conditioned chill. "Turn it off," he complained; the cool air, he said, would freeze his throat. But of course, said the impresario-and sotto voce told his assistant to leave it on. All through the first two acts, Tucker's anger mounted. Finally, just before the third act he announced: "Unless the air conditioning is turned off, I do not sing a note!" Someone mentioned that the audience might leave. "Let them!" Tucker roared. "They must...