Word: venetian
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...album of her own. And Union City is faithful to the tones and undertones of film noir, that postwar style of moviemaking that transposed Raymond Chandler's mean-streets prose and James M. Cain's haunted losers to celluloid. Electric blue and neon orange infiltrate the Venetian blinds as Harlan, obsessed with finding the person who has been drinking from the milk bottles outside his door, strikes the culprit with a blow hard enough to kill and then hides the body in the apartment next door. The film's moral is as curt and curdled...
...contrast to the abstract formalism of the seven house projects, the second series of drawings concerns the world of man and the state of human thought. The works form Hejduk's Venetian Trilogy, a project done over a four-year period beginning in 1975. The trilogy functions as an allegory for the architect's view of society...
DIED. Annunzio Paolo Mantovani, 74, mood-music maestro whose lush, homogenized sound made him the first musician to sell a million stereo albums in the U.S.; after a prolonged illness; in Tunbridge Wells, England. The Venetian-born, British-educated son of a Covent Garden concertmaster began his own career at 16 as a classical violinist. Though he conducted London's Hotel Metropole Orchestra and his own Tipica Orchestra in concerts, BBC broadcasts and on records in the 1920s, '30s and '40s, and later became music director for Playwright Noel Coward, Mantovani was little known outside of Britain...
...dirtiest political deals in history was made in 1202, when the Venetian Republic agreed to ship the Fourth Crusade to the Holy Land to conquer the infidel. An army of some 35,000 men, including hairy Prankish thugs as well as idealistic Catholic knights, assembled on the Lido, but no ships appeared; the Venetians wanted more money for the transport job. After months of delay and misery, the deal was made: as part of the fare, the Crusaders agreed to make a detour on their way to Palestine to seize Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, so that Venice...
...show. Only when the 17th century-under the influence of Rubens and Bernini-demanded more intricate, twisting, rearing, active poses for the horse in art did the pervasive influence of these creatures decline. Yet even then it was soon to be revived in the 18th century by the great Venetian neoclassicist Antonio Canova...