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...expensive and sometimes worth it. Yet another costly place, Lafayette, is notoriously snotty. In the same see-and-be-seen class, La Grenouille and La Côte Basque offer wonderful food-it is all terrifically expensive-but without the same hauteur. Elaine's (Second Ave. at 88th St.), an Upper East Side Italian restaurant, is a favorite of New York literati, media heroes, publishers and assorted recognizable people. But the food is third-rate and outsiders are exiled to the back room. It is a serious mistake for anyone who is not George Plimpton to go there...
...drug fiend, I'm not a drunkard, but I am the laziest man I ever met," joked Artur Rubinstein just a few days before he gave a marathon concert that included two piano concertos. On his 88th birthday, the last of the great romantics on or off the keyboard celebrated with his children and grandchildren and also gave an elfish performance for some 40 friends gathered to toast him in Manhattan. RCA presented him with a chocolate piano with 88 keys. Purring at the adulation, and twinkling much the way he must have in Paris when he was interrupted...
When Göran Gentele was killed in an automobile accident barely two weeks after taking over as general manager of the Metropolitan Opera last July, he had already established himself as an affable, informal man with thoroughgoing administrative expertise. But last week, as the Met opened its 88th season with a new production of Bizet's Carmen that Gentele had conceived and intended to stage, the question was: Could he also produce opera...
Record collectors have long been accustomed to a one-sided search for one particular piece in a maze of two-faced records. Is that Mozart's 40th on the flip side of Haydn's 88th? Is Beethoven's "Waldstein" Sonata on the other side of the Schumann Piano Concerto? Now this petty but annoying problem is all but solved. More and more companies are offering omnibus collections of great composers in one volume, uniformly boxed and carefully indexed...
...Miracle Worker, which told of her early days with Teacher when she was rescued from what she called the "no-world." The play and the motion picture brought alive for yet another generation the example of Helen Keller's conquest of adversity. Last week, shortly before her 88th birthday, Helen Keller died in her home at Easton, Conn. Soon after entering college, she wrote: "A potent force within me, stronger than the persuasion of my friends, had impelled me to try my strength by the standards of those who see and hear." Her success in that test...