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Jerome Robbins is currently considered the man most likely to succeed George Balanchine as artistic guru of the New York City Ballet. Thus every new ballet by Robbins is scrutinized with particular care, to see how his choreographic talents blend with the performing skills of a company that was created by the immortal...
...other hand, as played by Gian Maria Volonte (gratefully remembered as the title character in Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion), Mattei himself emerges as a fascinating enigma-proud, driven, a masterful manipulator. His sheer energy-and his peculiar sense of realism, which appears to have been a blend of cynicism and idealism-compels attention. A pioneer conglomerator, he headed a state-owned corporation and drove himself not for money (he apparently had no life, let alone luxury, outside the office), but for power and, perhaps, for love of a game in which he delightedly cast himself in the role...
...which it could be asserted that the picture was something special in the world, and by which the painter could put himself into the picture and make it live. Paradoxical as it may seem amid an art as bare and non-commital as his, Robert Motherwell is able to blend the pieces of these collages not only into a formal conception that succeeds on its own account but probes and experiments with signing himself, in multiple ways, as the artist he wants...
Ironically enough, the Perónists, despite their neofascist legacy, may choose to govern with a blend of nationalism and mild Marxism, which means more government control over industry and the economy. In foreign policy, Perón clearly wants to restore Argentina to leadership of Spanish-speaking Latin America, thereby countering the influence of both Portuguese-speaking Brazil- its traditional rival...
...world today knows Rubinstein as an ageless wonder, the warmest of musicians, who at the age of 86 can still bring an audience to tears with his blend of drama and poetry. But in the early years of the century he was a Casanova in tails. His seemingly endless list of courtships had begun in his native Poland with a twelve-year-old girl, appropriately named Mania (he was ten at the time). Then came a staggering array of flirtations and affairs...