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...suitcases for liquor before departure. DiCara, who looks much older than 21, recalled with a laugh one special episode on the trip. "I was dancing with a couple of gals and really keeping up with them. I love to dance and I was wearing this white turtle neck, pretty avant-garde for me. So I got a standing ovation from the band for bridging the generation gap," he said...
...ballooned sales from $29 million to $220 million in a decade, made the financial arrangements for the transition of the Sunday supplement from the defunct New York Herald Tribune into New York magazine. Well known as an art patron, his own collection ranged from ancient Chinese snuff bottles to avant-garde moderns; one of his latest projects was the construction of a 1,680-ft. stone maze ("a symbol in a world that doesn't know where it's going") on his Arkville, N.Y., estate. Married and divorced at an early age, Erpf waited until...
...present by expression of energy, of motion and of the modern technology. The 1917 Revolution had signaled the end of the old order; the Constructivists embraced the new society based on industrialization. The Constructivist sense of space had broken with the old order or mass, and this Soviet "avant-garde" directed their efforts away from the pedestal arts to the reorganization of the artistic life through a promotion of the new politics and economics: "The streets shall be our brushes the squares our palettes. . . . " (Vladimir Mayakovsky...
...change from the Constructivist "avant-garde" back to Realism is dynamically shown in photos of the Competition for the Palace of Soviets in 1932. All Constructivist entries were rejected in preference to a "social realist" structure, not unlike a giant birthday cake with the crowning one candle to-grow-on in the shape of Stalin...
Maurice Béjart and his Brussels-based Ballet of the 20th Century, at Brooklyn's Academy of Music, were trying to demonstrate why European audiences regard them as the most avant of the avantgarde. At 43, Béjart is famous for dealing in shock effects, trying to interest the young and preaching that dance is mass ritual best staged in, say, Yankee Stadium. Other Béjart proclivities include a fondness for propaganda and a belief that the union of male and female, explicitly demonstrated, is a major balletic theme. For music he mixes Wagner with Indian...