Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...something. Occasionally he gives the impression of a slightly manic professor as he strolls about in his stocking feet, commenting on whatever comes into his mind. But he also appears to have no trouble relaxing at his Washington home, where he lives with his wife, Mary, a silk-screen artist; they have three children. Kahn swims, skis, jogs and likes to sing Gilbert and Sullivan tunes. A certain whimsy is often on display. In a memo he once urged his staff to avoid gobbledygook and write "as though you are talking to or communicating with real people. I have heard...
Despair is quite an undertaking for a film artist. Herman Hermann is so disatisfied with messy, imperfect reality that he concocts a work of art--the perfect murder--and attempts to immortalize it in the ordered, finite world of a novel he writes. Stoppard's great innovation is that he sees the story not from its uniquely literary angle, but from its general artistic one: Is not cinema an art form, too? Can't movies also be perfectly ordered? And can't movie director, if he chooses, be as selective about the details he presents to the viewer...
Instead, Allen put it all on the line with Interiors. In making his first serious movie, what he calls "a drama in the traditional sense," Allen gambled his presumed hammerlock on American humor for a shot at fame as a "serious artist." If Interiors flops, all Allen will have left is the old image of an undignified loser--only it won't seem quite so funny any more...
After three days on maneuvers, Duden drives to her home in Alexandria, Va., where she lives with her two stepdaughters and her husband, a former combat artist in Viet Nam who now paints full time. Duden's work pays off: she is the first woman to achieve "honor graduate" rating at the Marine's tactical training course. In January she and her family will be sent to Okinawa...
...insights are a bit unripe. But his cast is indelible and his command of narrative assured. The handful of flaws can be easily overlooked. For the author, who grew up in India, the son of American missionaries, is all of 22. His first novel marks the debut of an artist worth reading and watching closely...