Word: vesuvius
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...Spanish baroque choir screen, whose 60,000 Ibs. of elegant grillwork spans one of the Met's halls. Only a museum can frame a room as art, such as the Met's cubiculum, or bedroom, from the Roman town of Boscoreale on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius. Its wall scenes of architectural vistas help make the museum's Roman painting the best outside Italy, as well as giving a sense of the 1st century B.C. country squire's yearning for civility. The private study of a 15th century Italian duke, Federigo da Montefeltro, a Renaissance humanist...
...Cubiculum, a Pompeian bedroom slathered with wall paintings that was buried for 18 centuries under cinders from Mount Vesuvius, dug up in 1900, and only recently restored by the museum...
...with a Man Sketching (circa 1645); and a rare Goya lithograph, Men Spitting at a Fire, showing the Spaniard's early use of the medium. Also on view is the Cubiculum, a Pompeian bedroom whose walls are slathered with paintings. Buried for 18 centuries under cinders from Mount Vesuvius, it was dug up in 1900 and only recently restored by the museum...
...kiss his own reflection in a mirror and really mean it. Nat Bentley is a television writer-producer in Hollywood, but his most inspired production is his ebulliently maleficent self. He is an imp of distilled evil. He is a triple-tongued double dealer, a glib Vesuvius of fantasy and falsehood, a perpetual-emotion machine with nary an honest feeling...
...reasons of realism as well as low costs, Hollywood directors have for years sought their scenery abroad. But television, content to develop its talent for staging the eruption of Vesuvius in a studio closet, has rarely ventured far afield. Next season, viewers will see a brave pioneer bust out of the closet onto the Còte d'Azur and points north. The pioneer: a hammy comedy serial about an American nightclub act in Europe titled Harry's Girls (NBC), which is filming 13 of its 26 half-hour shows on the French Riviera...