Word: oberlander
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...Swiss tennis officials presented him with Juliette, a prize cow. But you don't have to be a tennis star to own a fine Swiss bovine. Nina, Beate and Britta are big brown cows that spend their days grazing the picturesque Alpine meadows above Brienz, in Switzerland's Bernese Oberland-and they're for rent...
...power of organization was awesome; his spread of quotation, wide. What caused the individual citations to hang together, though, was his eye for nature. Nowhere is this clearer than in his huge composition of 1937, The Mountain. Every one of the figures on this plateau of the Bernese Oberland is quoted from somewhere else--the girl lying down in the foreground comes from a Poussin, and so on. The green-capped rocks are real, but they are also inspired by Courbet's landscapes. But what so lifts the picture is its soft, rapturous golden light, bathing every complicated shape...
...side of Balthus not predicted by The Street was suggested, in 1937, by The Mountain. This enormous scene of young hikers in the Bernese Oberland holds so many references-from Courbet, Caspar David Friedrich and Poussin, for starters-that it approaches pastiche. It creaks with the ambition to be a masterpiece and is regularly taken for one, though its composition has the spottily grand look of an academic mistake. But the figure of Balthus's blond wife, hands stretched above her head, rising from the dark plateau into the zone of early-morning sun, is a prime lyric invention...
Switzerland's Bernese Oberland was chock-a-block with celebrities last week. Among those on skiing holidays were the Ago Khan, Audrey Hepburn, Roman Polanski and Jack Nicholson. On the slopes of Crans-Sur-Sierre, Jackie Onassis, in a snappy jacket and warmup pants, cut such a dashing figure that at one point she careered downhill and landed in a split. Son John, 14, was more conservative, preferring to give a Bronx cheer to a photographer. In Gstaad, Novice Nicholson was struggling with the subtleties of wedeling. "He loves zooming downhill," sighed Temporary Instructor Polanski. "His style is like...
...suffer more and more from the shameful state of affairs in my country," he whispered. "If all my appeals bear no fruit, I shall leave Geneva and go to my cave in the Bernese Oberland near Fribourg. I will then start a new fasting period, this time unto eternity." Newsmen at the Palais des Nations guessed that Vo would continue his curious protest-just as Viet Nam would go on being partitioned...