Word: harlequins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...masterworks skyrocketing to unheard of levels. Earlier this month a 1923 Picasso painting titled Birdcage was auctioned for a record $15.4 million, only to be topped four days later by the sale of the 1901 Motherhood for $24.8 million. Then last week a 1905 gouache titled Acrobat and Young Harlequin was sold at a London auction for $38.4 million, a record for a 20th century painting. The buyer was identified as Akio Nishino, head of fine arts for Tokyo's Mitsukoshi department store. Only two other canvases, Van Gogh's Irises ($53.9 million) and Sunflowers ($39.9 million) have brought more...
...page novel beautifully encompasses the absolute horrors and utter joys of life, not just in the South, but everywhere. Incongruously packaged like a Harlequin romance with the author's name as large as the title, the issues that Conroy never allows to rest are ignorance, prejudice, and fear...
Melanie's father, Winthrop Professor of History Stephen Thernstrom, says that he is "very happy and proud." He adds, "I am staggered by the whole thing, particularly because the book is very good. It is not a Harlequin Romance, it is a deeply moving personal memoir...
...Quincy House production is a funny, frolicsome farce in the 16th Century commedia dell' arte tradition. Director Joseph Giani fills the show with characters in brightly colored, Harlequin-style costumes, masks with grotesquely distorted features, troubadours with recorders and guitars, people hitting each other with padded swords, puppets, actors mixing with the audience, and lots of physical, semi-improvisational comedy...
...much to celebrate. For one thing, a cool million no longer induces the slack-jawed awe it once did; everyone knows that insider traders on Wall Street can steal that much before lunch. And British Author Sally Beauman is not really a first novelist. She has written nine Harlequin romances under a pseudonym...