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...devotees and friends in the U.S., some did get through, settling for the most part in Manhattan and Los Angeles. Among them, from Paris, were Fernand Leger, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian, Jacques Lipchitz and the core group of Surrealists who went to New York City: Max Ernst, Andre Breton, Yves Tanguy, Andre Masson and Roberto Matta. From Germany, Kokoschka, Kurt Schwitters and the Dada collagist John Heartfield reached London, while Max Beckmann, Josef Albers and George Grosz made it to America...
...elected because Shimon Peres too easily forgot Arafat's history as a murderer. We are hoping Netanyahu will remember whom he is dealing with and will present a more rigid guideline of negotiation. Arafat and his followers should recognize that Israel cannot be divided into any more pieces. JUDY BRETON Alon Shvut, Israel
...that it has become as common for a serious reader to read literary biographies as actual novels, is only a matter of time until even moderately famous writers get the full biographical treatment. The last year saw new biographies of Antoine de St.-Exupery, Andre Breton, and William Morris, to name just a few. And truly major writers are guaranteed at least a handful of encyclopedia-length biographies--three new books on Thomas Mann appeared in the space of a few months last summer...
...received more than three times its normal amount of rain. From the Rhine to the Loire and the North Sea, France too has been battered by Niagara-like downpours. Normandy and Brittany got almost one-third of their average annual rainfall from Jan. 17 to 28. In Rennes, the Breton capital, showers dropped an astonishing 70 liters of rain per sq m in a 24-hour span of Jan. 22 to 23, breaking a 111-year record...
...painter a worse embarrassment than Salvador Dali? Not even Andy Warhol. Long before his physical death in 1989, old Avida Dollars -- Andre Breton's anagram of his name -- had collapsed into wretched exhibitionism. Genius, Shocker, Lip-Topiarist: though he once turned down an American businessman's proposal to open a string of what would be called Dalicatessens, there was little else he refused to endorse, from chocolates to perfumes. He was surrounded by fakes and crooks and married to one of the greediest harpies in Europe: Gala, who made him the indentured servant of his lost talent even...