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...extraordinary people, it was the adventurer Casanova and the swindler Cagliostro who raised deception to a way of life and a high art; Machiavelli who made it a cardinal principle of statecraft; while Mussolini was by no means the first Italian leader to perish finally believing the deceptions he had himself created. At the start, Barzini thinks, Mussolini "watched him self playing the great role he was invent ing as gusto," he but went over the along, years he hamming at it began to with believe the stirring show and the lies and flattery, came to read his own news...
...Somerset Maugham's 1937 novel Theatre was to risk anachronism, and to make it in French ought to have guaranteed disaster. What could be done to enhance the hackneyed backstage tale of a London actress who gambles her good name and marriage in an affair with a Casanova not much older than her teen...
...chaser, that's what I am," Platonov admits. By alter-chaser, that's what I am," Platonov admits. By alternating pledges to take up and break off extra-marital escapades, he invites insults, homicide, suicide, and laughter. While the plot thrives on surprise entrances and simultaneous incidents this boobish Casanova slides toward his comic doom...
JULES OLITSKI-Poindexter, 21 West 56th. Butterfly Kiss, Fatal Plunge, Pink Casanova, The Flaming Passion of Beverly Torrid. Carnegie Winner Olitski's titles sound more like lipsticks than paintings, but they are provocative. Butterfly Kiss, for example, is a yawning cavity of empty canvas that separates a pulsating orange blob from a passionate pink blip. Through March...
Some requirements are determined by the culture of the country to which a volunteer may be sent. Turkey, for example, has strict separation of the sexes. If a volunteer who fancies himself a Casanova disregards this, he will will make a lot of people very angry. Similarly, Turkey might be no place for a very 'social' girl...