Word: francesco
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...standard left is the camera's unblinking eye. Margaux is a photographer's ideal, and despite the trend to diversity, hers is the face of a generation, as recognizable and memorable as Lisa Fonssagrives and Jean Shrimpton. When Margaux has her hair wet and slicked back, Photographer Francesco Scavullo thinks she looks Etruscan. Says Designer Halston: "She has all the components to become a modern young superstar-openness, infectiousness, beauty and the ambition to follow through...
...codices is as frustratingly hermetic as ever. But in terms of his work, the notes are priceless. They shed little new light on his painting, but this is made up for by the richness of detail in Codex Madrid II on his great sculptural project, the equestrian bronze of Francesco Sforza- Il Cavallo, as Leonardo called it, the full-size clay model for which was shot to rubble by French crossbowmen after the conquest of Milan in 1500. It would have been the largest bronze group in recorded history, 23 ft. high, cast upside down in one continuous pour...
...Sardinia the two leftist parties drew abreast of the Christian Democrats for the first time since World War II, with each side winning about 38% of the island vote for local offices. Although Sardinia was not mentioned by name around the brocaded table, the returns encouraged Socialist Party Secretary Francesco de Martino to demand "a different relationship with the constitutional opposition, and the Communist Party in particular...
...Francesco wanted the child, but he wanted the spectacle more. If he'd been given the choice, he'd surely have chosen the state funeral, financed by the king of France. A baby wasn't his ideal of immortality, it wasn't part of his plan. But the funeral oration...
Isabella is the only one who comes close to self-fulfillment. She realizes that perhaps it is possible to infuse creativity into her roles, a creativity balanced between Flaminio's self-consuming and haphazard improvisation and Francesco's constricting memorization. She realizes that her talents have been developed as self-protection, not self-expression, as a shield against her naturally unbounded generosity, a self-destructive and explosive emotion which often vented itself in endless hours of duck-like squawking. But the best she can do, speaking from the wrong side of the heavenly gates, is whisper her confession into another...