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...this is reflected in a sumptuous summer-long exhibition entitled "The Past Rediscovered: French Painting 1800-1900" at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. The show provides a rare opportunity for reacquaintance and reassessment (see color). Paintings by both major and minor figures, including seven loaned by the Louvre, have been arranged in chronological sequence, thereby skillfully re-creating a vigorous esthetic dialogue reflected on canvas...
Lord of a sumptuous villa, master of a 200-worker foundry, Miguel Berrocal is, at 36, the latest in a long and rather glorious tradition of Spanish grandees in the arts. Like Picasso and Dali before him, he is both a dazzling technician and a self-consciously public personality, immoderately gifted and immodestly inclined to say so. With his French-born wife Michele, he presides over the 40-room Villa Rizzardi outside Verona, a Renaissance palazzo set among stately cypresses and broad formal gardens that he has studded with his own works. There, the couple entertains some...
Although the union leadership later claimed credit for the bill's passage, dissident members contend that aging Ray Humphreys, president of U.M.W.'s District 17, reflects the real attitude at the union's sumptuous Washington headquarters. Says Humphreys: "I guess we did let the sons of bitches get us behind the eight ball...
...hung a boar's tooth around his neck to ward off evil spirits. Twentieth century woman complements her Gernreich with bangles to draw attention to the flesh beneath. Medieval and Renaissance lords and ladies lived between the two extremes. As God-fearing Christians, they embellished their wardrobes with sumptuous crucifixes and jeweled pendants rich with Christian imagery. Such emblems indulged the wearer's vanity, but also made manifest his faith...
...REVIEW of the premiere (1902) of Pelleas et Melisande complained of the work's "constant nebulosity" and of its "monotonous recitative, unbearable and moribund," remarks which are critical failures because they judge Debussy's original work by precisely the musical conventions which he renounced. His opera eschews the sumptuous polyphony, turgid mythologism, city-directory leit-motives, and vertiginous romanticism of the Ring. Debussy seeks a deeper organicism in which music is not grafted onto drama or drama is used as suggestion for musical contours, but rather where music and poetry are absorbed one into the other to yield an operatic...