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...tact and graciousness do not signal a relaxed will. He pushed hard and successfully for the company's new Mini-Met, devoted to intimate or experimental operas in small halls with mostly young casts. To the Met staff's evident joy, he preserved and deepened the aura of good will between management and unions fostered by his predecessor, Goran Gentele, who was killed last July in a car crash in Sardinia before he ever really had a chance...
ROTH, OF COURSE, works in everything else under the sun -- transvestites, midgets and an incredible panoply of solidly imaginative caricatures. All of this, as well as the moral aura surrounding a proud and gentlemanly game debased, is milked for all the socio-cultural comment it's worth. There is a Moby Dick thoroughness about the subject: Roth did a lot of homework in Cooperstown, and there is an ambling love of detail for its own sake that recalls Melville's novel (which, by the way, Roth calls "five hundred pages of blubber"). The innuendoes of the game itself...
...pictures in which Hodler placed most pride are his large, carefully structured nude groups. These include consciously symbolist works with titles like Night, Day, Love and Truth. Carefully composed and painted, these are likely to strike us now as overly flat and academic. The symbolist aura of the time when they were painted has faded, and the preliminary sketches appeal much more than the stiff finished paintings...
...collapse of Haldeman's paper empire has cast its own mythological aura over the scene. One wanders along the White House drive these days disbelieving what one hears and sees. Twice before in the past decade it has happened. In the hours after John Kennedy's assassination, the enormity of the event was too much to absorb. In the wake of Martin Luther King's assassination, when parts of Washington were burned and looted, people stood in a stupor on the White House lawn and saw the smoke drift over them and watched as looters broke windows...
...When he was in one of his intense moods, relaxed, unassuming Valerie went her own sweet way, and that, surprisingly, unwound him. She never debunked him and, more important, never inflated him. In short, says Solti's American Manager Ann Colbert, "Valerie took him off the pedestal." The aura of happy domesticity sits well on Solti these days. He has even been known to end an evening's rehearsal early to go home and tuck his first child. Daughter Gabrielle, now 3, into...