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...assaults, and the one whose scale and timing most resembled the military exercises now being planned, began on Oct. 21, 1962. It included 7,500 Marines and four aircraft carriers. The goal was to "liberate" the island from a mythical dictator named Ortsac, which happens to be Castro spelled backward. The following day John Kennedy went on television to reveal that Soviet missiles had secretly been placed in Cuba and that the U.S. ships in the area would set up a "quarantine" of that nation until the missile crisis was resolved...
...play. Guitarist Carlos Alomar, for example, found himself playing drums. Bowie then took the chord changes from Boys Keep Swinging, played them at nearly half speed and came up with a romantic ballad, Fantastic Voyage. Bowie's classic raver for Mott the Hoople, All the Young Dudes, was played backward and turned into Move...
...Time sweeps everything along in its great, slow spiral: Gram's farm, Uncle Dan's butcher shop, Celia's beauty. People and houses move for a while with the current, then drop away to be replaced by hazy afterimages-family gossip, family myth. This musing, brooding, backward-looking novel, the author's first, summons up scenes of middle-aged women huddling over coffee across a kitchen table, talking in murmurs not always audible. It recalls the memorable time when Katie, who must have been about ten, wriggled under the stall door at the railway station bathroom...
...Italy and, especially, England. His work, despite its powerful integrity of style, was open to all kinds of influence: portrait proto types ranging from Leonardo to Titian, the work of the Fontainebleau mannerists, Quinten Massys, English court miniaturists, Darer and Mathi as Grünewald. It seems to range backward and forward in time, a web of discreet allusions that seldom rise to open quotation. Thus in drawing Cecily Heron, the youngest daughter of Sir Thomas More, Holbein selected the pose of another woman with the same first name, Cecilia Gallerani, the model for Leonardo's Lady with...
...Roman critic: la transavanguardia, or the "trans-avant-garde." This clot of art jargon, like "post-modernism," means nothing definable. It merely points to a mood of eclectic revivalism, the assumption being that since progress in art is a myth, painting must perforce go crabwise, with many nostalgic glances backward. Under such a vague rubric, Chia looks a very apposite painter. Granted, neither he nor his fellow transavanguardisti get anywhere near the best German art of this generation, epitomized by the grim, magnificently redemptive visions of Anselm Kiefer, 38. Yet it is better to lack the tragic sense than...