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...personal quality that friends recall first when asked about the late E. Power Biggs is his brilliant wit. Whether situated in a stuffy recording studio, an elegant cocktail party, or addressing an audience of thousands before a recital, Biggs capitalized upon his vivid imagination to evoke warmth or provoke understanding of the point he had set out to make...
...base about a foot or so square) are cut-outs remarkably like the cross-sections you see of the human tongue in a biology textbook. It would be easy to see this sculpture as a sort of satire of speech: the forms overlap like conversations do at a cocktail party. And as you walk around the piece it is as hard to decide which angle it looks best from as it is to decide where to stand in a crowd--you move and one form overshadows the ones next to it, just as one voice takes over from another...
...Cocktail Party...
...offer is hard to resist. How, one might ask, could Adler nominate Eliot's pretentious The Cocktail Party and not his superb Four Quartets? If there is room for the historical musings of Toynbee, why is there no room for Braudel's monumental The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II? And if this list is supposed to update the original of 25 years ago, why does it recognize so few living writers? Bellow and Solzhenitsyn are admirable, but where is the magic of Grass's The Tin Drum or Robert Lowell...
...front of the painting repeating, to those passing by, Sackler's comparison of Tao'chi's flowers with a Mondrain painting of chrysanthemums "that he has at home." The point of the anecdote seemed to have vanished, however, somewhere in this chic game of telephone. Real connoisseurship is not cocktail conversation...