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In fact, there was already a fair amount of dissension among the members of the band: McCartney wanted to get out more and play for the folks, Lennon wanted to work in the recording studio, like an artist with a canvas. The ideological pressures and upheavals of the decade made...
...those artists. She bought a painting that her friend Pollock called simply Number 28, for $3,000 (it is now worth $3 million). She paid de Kooning $2,700 for his 1949 canvas Attic (now worth up to $1.5 million). She bought Motherwells and Klines, as well as gentle canvases by Jack Tworkov, a Polish immigrant who had switched from figurative painting to abstract expressionism influenced by de Kooning. She bought Calders and Giacomettis, a Henry Moore bronze and Cornell boxes. At first she hung her own works next to her new acquisitions; then she took them down. "I realized...
A man named Mirek tries to retrieve and destroy the love letters he sent a mistress of his youth. He wants to obliterate the fact that he ever loved such an ugly woman. He is, in fact, unconsciously aping the Czech rulers who are persecuting him; he feels "an uncontrollable...
The atmosphere was oddly exuberant. Old Lenin stared down somberly on the assemblage from his ten-foot canvas at the head of the hall. The center of attention was former President Richard Nixon, who had flown in from New York especially for the party. Ex-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger...
La Motta was an animal, a bull in the ring and a pig outside, and Scorsese is true to both Jakes. The boxing sequences (which amount to barely a dozen minutes of the movie's two hours plus) are as violent, controlled, repulsive and exhilarating as anything in the...