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Cartouche (kärt  sh`), 1693–1721, nickname of Louis Dominique Bourguignon, French highwayman. His band terrorized the Paris area until his capture. He was broken on the wheel. Cartouche's daring exploits have been celebrated in stories, dramas, ballads, and popular prints. |
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The early century Renaissance Revival brick and limestone structure, with its distinctive vintage facade comprised of elaborate cartouches and regal balconies, is being transformed into luxury condominium homes by Elad Properties, one of New York's leading residential developers. The collection contains ancient Egyptian artifacts like an oval cartouche box, stuffed animals, insects, ocean specimens, and items from early America. For Roberts, the religious works remain uncomplicated by the 1960 suite of Hitler's Opera drawings, in which the fascist Antichrist mimics gay porn before being crucified on an airplane fusillage; nor are the Minimal works she discusses troubled by the "dialectics of the cartouche," the means by which Smithson bracketed his crystalline geometric investigations off from a sexy soup of lounging hermaphrodites and puddling goo. |
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