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Seven years ago, on his 41st birthday, Philip Glass was driving a New York City taxicab. From the age of 17 he had worked as a hotel night clerk, an airport baggage loader, a crane operator in a steel mill, a furniture mover and a plumber, all the while pursuing his real vocation: composer. Glass, however, was not hoping to make a big score with a pop song or a Broadway show. Rather, he was that least salable commodity, a revolutionary avant- gardist...
...more vivid for its late start. Born in Le Havre in 1901, he followed his father's trade as a wine merchant and (apart from one desultory spell as an art student in his teens, and another in the 1930s) did not commit himself to painting until after his 41st birthday. Yet by the end of the war, and especially by 1947 -- when he exhibited his riotously funny and touching series of portraits of French intellectuals and writers -- Dubuffet's work was not only an object of public scandal but also an essential part of the imagery of postwar France...
...from ninth place, for instance, partly because it is "a genteel place to live." Atlanta, 1981's top city, fell to eleventh place, hurt by conditions at its zoo. Washington, second in 1981, slipped in rank to 15th, while the metropolitan Greensboro, N.C., area dived from third to 41st...
...Venice Biennale is the longest-running festival-cum-survey in modern art. The first one was held in 1895, and the 41st opened this month in its three dozen national pavilions, set in the public gardens a few minutes by vaporetto from Piazza San Marco. It is, as always, a hotchpotch with some loose thematic strands. The ostensible subject for 1984 is "Art and the Arts"-painting, sculpture and their connections to other media, to their own history, to architecture, and so on. Almost anything can be gathered under such an umbrella, and nearly everything has been, from plaster Apollos...
When the stock market closed last Monday at 4 p.m., a group of Salomon and Chrysler executives was already meeting in the Salomon offices on the 41st floor of 1 New York Plaza in Manhattan. Salomon advised Chrysler to set the premium at $5 and to add 10.20 as a "tail" to make sure there was no tie, making the total bid $21.602 per share. Then at 4:20, just ten minutes ahead of a deadline set by the Treasury, a Salomon agent dropped the bid into a slot in the northwest conference room on the tenth floor...