Word: vermeere
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...mescaline and sat back in the California sunshine to contemplate the infinity of wrinkles in his trousers. The following year he described his psychedelic confrontation with gray flannel in The Doors of Perception. ,"How rich, how deeply, mysteriously sumptuous," he wrote. "The nearest approach to this . . . would be a Vermeer...
...painted by Sargent. The portrait Sargent did of her sits in the Gothic room on the third floor. Stained glass windows flank her, and a carved chest topped by a huge Bible lies before her like an altar. And, with an amazing amount of stupidity, she placed the only Vermeer in New England perpendicular to a window. The light shines on it at the only angle that could make it completely unreadable...
Semprun's New Wave spy novel, accordingly, is sometimes hallucinatory, often irritating, always intricate. The opening is a microscopic examination of a scene by a Dutch canal bank. As Semprun's camera slowly pulls back it is Vermeer's View of Delft, hanging on its wall of the Mauritshuis in The Hague where it is being looked at by a man who thinks of himself as a spy, thinks of himself as being shadowed, and who may be a Spaniard, a businessman named Ramon Mercader, which happens also to be one of the names by which history...
...renowned Vermeer Quartet will play Mozart's Quartet in D major and Leon Kirchner will conduct the Chamber Players in Hindemith's Kammerkonzert, which will feature guest artists Frank Epstein, percussion, Ralph Jenkins, accordian, and Robert Hazen, trumpet. Tickets $2 in advance or at the door...
...superb cinematographer Vittorio Storaro, Bertolucci's collaborator since The Spider's Stratagem. Storaro douses Bertolucci's films in ravishing light-working, as many cinematographers do, from ideas in painting. He and Bertolucci drew their inspiration for Tango not only from Francis Bacon but also from Vermeer...