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Weinberger does his pondering in a third-floor Pentagon office, which is dominated by Titian's Titian and Assistant, on loan from the National Gallery. Among his redecorating touches: adding some antique military swords to his office and installing a hi-fi system. The Secretary likes to contemplate the nation's security to classical music. He generally arrives at work between 7:30 and 8 a.m. He puts in twelve hours and returns home with a full briefcase for postdinner consideration. He lives in a $750,000 town house near Washington's Embassy Row with his wife of 38 years...
...1600s, Venice became the home of the new art form. The locale was appropriate: opera was more comfortable in that city of intrigue and sensuousness, and Titian red was better suited to its grand theatricality than the umber of Tuscany. Monteverdi settled there and wrote at least six operas; by 1700 there were 16 opera theaters among the canals. In the mid-19th century, the new music had progressed so far from its simple start that Hector Berlioz recalled: "... horses, cardinals under a canopy . . . orgies of priests and naked women . . . the rocking of the heavens...
...party and ideology; that they sell newspapers. But Dirty Linen does not explore the psychology of public prurience, does not try to explain why people buy newspapers when they contain prying stories about politicians' private lives. In the play's epiphanic moment, a buxom secretary named Maddie Gotobed--the "Titian-haired, green-eyed" enchantress at the root of this particular scandal--instructs the committee of M.P.s investigating the charges that "the people" care about how they perform their public jobs, not how they conduct their personal lives. A sigh and a smile sweeps through the audience; they, too, can share...
...19th century spanned the greatest watershed in the history of Western painting. At its beginning, masters like David and Ingres were producing canvases that Da Vinci or Titian, Botticelh or Durer could have seen without shock, even with admiration, recognizing them as descendants of their own styles. But the work of the painters at century's endMonet's broken colors, Van Gogh's unabashed brushstrokes, Cezanne's blocky formsthey would have regarded with stunned astonishment, perhaps even outrage...
...highest: Velazquez's Portrait of Juan de Pareja, $5.5 million, in 1970; Titian's Death of Actaeon, $4 million...