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...that success has not made Donoso cautious. His new novel takes major risks. It does without a strong central character around whom the action can revolve. It offers instead the Ventura family: seven adults and their spouses plus 33 children ranging in age from six to 16. This clan spends every summer at Marulanda, a magnificent, fenced-in estate, with a vast plain outside stretching to the horizon in all directions. Barely visible are the blue mountains beyond, where laborers who are virtual slaves mine the Ventura gold...
Sometimes a dominant color, like the striking of a great gong, will fill a whole painting as surely as it does a Matisse: so with Moroni's extraordinary Portrait of Gian Gerolamo Grumelli. The picture has its allegorical furniture. The ivy clinging to the ruin suggests clan loyalty, the broken statue (whose foot remains in the niche) symbolizes the passage of time, and the motto on the bas-relief, "Better the follower than the forerunner," is a manifesto of conservatism. Yet what counts visually is the brocaded red figure, glowing with arrested vitality against the gray ground...
RECOVERING. Edward M. Kennedy, 51, Democratic Senator from Massachusetts, after hospitalization in Washington, D.C.; from a bleeding duodenal ulcer, anemia, viral hepatitis and dehydration; and Rose Kennedy, 93, doyenne of the Kennedy clan; from a viral infection; both at the family's home in Palm Beach...
...20th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's death, the late President's close-knit clan gathered for a private ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. Afterward, the family was joined by a larger group, 500 of J.F.K.'s former colleagues and friends at an invitation-only memorial Mass at his old parish church in Washington's Georgetown. Prominent among the absentees was Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, 54, who spent the day in Hyannisport, Mass., with the President's mother, Rose, 93. Also missing: John Kennedy Jr., 23, who is studying in India. Among those at the site...
More annoyingly, the staging is often unimaginative and stilted. Besides Ronis, who has the option of recreating scenes from his underground theater productions, the performers follow a predictable pattern. They each walk to the center stage spot, glue themselves there, then return to their seats. Isenberg stands from her clan twice when speaking, but doesn't move...