Word: xiv
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Silverstein has apparently spared no expense in achieving a stunning and fast-paced audio-visual spectacle, such as delighted the court of Louis XIV for whom it was created. Not only do we have live musicians, but we also have livestock, not to mention a whole harem of scantily clad Turkish dancers. And it would be hard to imagine a more lavish set of costumes than William D. Roberts has designed...
...hawklike man with an ascetic face, Behn worked in an eyrie high in the tower of the company's Manhattan headquarters, an oak-paneled chamber in rich Louis XIV style, a painting of the late Pius XI behind his desk. Often he would gather aides to listen on earphones as he telephoned subsidiaries on every continent, suavely speaking in all major languages, a trader who could charm dictators and dicker deals in every monetary exchange...
...dinner for Louis XIV, according to Mme. de Sévigné, the grand chef de cuisine at the Château Chantilly killed himself rather than face the Sun King without enough fish for his pièce de résistance. Fortunately, no such tragedy marred last week's visit of Britain's Queen Elizabeth to France, although one great cake prepared in her honor collapsed from the heat before she got to it and had to be hurriedly propped up. No one's life was held forfeit, and the first visit of a reigning...
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XIII. What cast his work into the shadow was the rule of King Louis XIV, who favored the glorifying allegories and myths of the classic style, abhorred naturalism and humanism. Shown a work by one of La Tour's fellow realists, Louis le Nain, the Sun King snorted: "Take those maggots away from...