Word: vitus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...table is not an isolated case. In its upper reaches, the art market has been afflicted with a kind of collective hysteria, a St. Vitus's dance of zeros across the checkbook: $5,544,000 for a Velasquez; a Titian, The Death of Actaeon, sold to Paul Getty for a little over $4,000,000; last week a Renoir, purchased for $16.80 a century ago, fetched $1,159,200 at a London auction. The list could be prolonged almost indefinitely, and will be: before the '70s are out, the first $10 million painting will probably have gone under...
...ballet based on a spot commercial sounds about as inviting as St. Vitus's Dance. Except if it was choreographed by George Balanchine, a genius who can design, with seemingly equal facility, enduring masterpieces or tremendous trifles. His latest work, which was given its world premiere by the New York City Ballet last week, is 22 minutes of slight but effervescent foolery. The title is the giveaway: PAMTGG (pronounced Pam-te-guh-guh) stands for "Pan Am Makes the Going Great...
Such a defeat for the boom psychology has rarely occurred in Alaska's history, which is a monument to the rugged philosophy that "if you're going to be raped, relax" The first white explorer to see the place was Vitus Bering, a Dane sailing in the service of Czar Peter the Great. His 1741 voyage was soon followed by Peter's prornyshleniki (explorer-colonizers), who swept eastward through the gale-tormented Aleutian Islands with the rapacity of conquistadors. Though Peter yearned for an empire, his colonizers found only humble Aleuts and thick-furred sea otters. By 1801, the Aleuts...