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Amor and Psyche is the masterpiece of Canova's "graceful" style -- and, by any standards, one of the most spectacular technical tours de force in the history of stone carving. What is so extraordinary about it is the extremes to which Canova pushed the basic fact that a carved figure group is an arrangement of stone and air. Here, the empty spaces, the holes in the white love knot of figures, are as interesting as the limbs, bodies and heads. Walk round it and you see a kind of interstitial fugue of tunnels, gaps and fissures. No photograph can give...
...their developers slumping toward insolvency. Chief among them is Olympia & York, which made a grim return engagement in bankruptcy court last week, this time in Britain. The Canadian real estate giant sought protection from creditors of its London Canary Wharf project. No expense had been spared in this spectacular 71-acre building complex that was to become a shining epicenter of world finance...
...didn't have a lot of spectacular games, but I just went out and did the same thing game after game, which is what you strive for," Johnston says. "you try to be consistent. You don't want highs and lows...
...69th Annual Adams/Dunster/Eliot Disco Masquerade: A Thomas retro spectacular--dance platforms, disco balls, The Wiz, the works,("Three crazy houses, each insane in their own way. Everybody came. I was so happy...
...anthropology concentrator did anything but fizzle out. In fact, she was nothing short of spectacular...