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...Piano Player, things-the honky-tonk piano, the hero's brass bed, an auto careening through the night-are vibrantly and almost independently alive, and man has become the lifeless inanimate object, draped over this brilliantly animated photoscape with the limp surrealistic pointlessness of one of Dali's melting watches...
...with Ceezee's seven-year-old son Alexander (who thinks nothing of splitting a sentence between French and English). There are casually elegant buffet lunches and small dinner parties-seldom for more than 24-at which the guest list might include the Windsors, Henry Ford II and Salvador Dali, Italy's Donna Marella Agnelli and Truman Capote. Governor Nelson Rockefeller and the Maharajah of Jaipur, Noel Coward and Senator Jacob Javits...
...today who are dreaming up loud-colored messes in their studios instead of going out and opening their eyes and painting what they see for other people to enjoy." Picasso is Hartford's idea of an ivory tower artist ("no communication"); his leading contender for immortality is Dali. from whom he commissioned a 14-ft. by 12-ft. painting, Christopher Columbus Discovers America. He also admires the work of Andrew Wyeth, Robert Vickrey, Aaron Bohrod, "and of course, Marjorie Steele. She may be my exwife, but I think she is one of the greatest woman painters today." Tennis, Anyone...
...MODERNS, by Gaston Diehl (219 pp.; Crown; $10). Another survey of modern painting, with the usual fine color plates and the customary inescapable fault: such a book, of course, will be leafed through oftener than it is read, and leafing through a collection containing one Klee, one Dali, one Pollock, and so on, can lead only to ocular indigestion...
...finds the cook and Mr. General doing kick-ups (in non-Government-issue evzone skirts and tasseled headgear) to the shrill piping of bouzotiki records. And in Act III there is a court-martial, with the key kooks testifying, that resembles a Marx Brothers movie sequence scripted by Salvador Dali. The cook and Mr. General are both outranked in acting honors by John McGiver. He plays and looks like Captain Bligh in khaki...