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...visit, but by any 16th century standard she was peripatetic. Elizabeth I would set out from London on "royal progresses" through the countryside, prompting an extravagant social frenzy everywhere she stopped. On a typical 1560s tour of Suffolk, one witness wrote, the Queen's hosts laid on "such sumptuous feastings and banquets as seldom in any part of the world hath been seen before." The provincials' Elizabethan party clothes were to die for. "All the velvets and silks that might be laid hands on were taken up and bought for any money," which made for "a comely troop...
...represented in the show by some striking works: the Flemish tapestry of The Miraculous Draught of Fishes, designed by Raphael, all limpid air, august figures and delicious feats of natural observation; the huge and crushingly elaborate Farnese altar cross and candlesticks, finished in 1582 by Antonio Gentili; a sumptuous set of gold-ground vestments embroidered for Clement VIII; and some newly cleaned terra cotta studies by Bernini, along with his bronze portrait bust of his main patron, Urban VIII (1623-44), the man who did more than any other Pope to reshape the appearance of Rome...
...proved to be highly accurate. That evening Boston Correspondent Joelle Attinger saw Connecticut Senate Candidate Toby Moffett transformed within hours from "an eerily calm" fellow telling fishing stories into a crushed politician whose voice repeatedly broke as he conceded defeat. And Houston Bureau Chief Sam Allis was attending a sumptuous bash for an overconfident Texas Governor Bill Clements, when the victory party suddenly turned into a wake. Allis hurried to opponent Mark White's headquarters, where what might have been "a political wake had become a full-blown victory party...
...have, in short, yielded to the telephone, the credit card and those sumptuous new Catalogues. Take your own Christmas presents. This year, for a change, they will be a) delivered on time, b) gorgeously gift-wrapped and c) exchangeable (it says here) if you don't like them...
...Cooper-Hewitt, which is the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design, has organized and displayed this exhibition with its usual flair. Scandinavian design, says the museum's sumptuous exhibition catalogue (published in hard cover by Harry N. Abrams, Inc.; $45), "scatters flowers before your feet and lays the pale colors and mild beauty of the Nordic summer before your eyes. Less apparent is the truth that this sunny effect is achieved against a background of darkness, cold, ice and snow...