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...temperament much given to dueling, De Chirico was born in Greece and constantly moved house. "In my life," he observed in a memoir, "there is some thing fatal which makes me change addresses." The character of these years - a melancholic idyll of transience, conducted in a series of sirocco-damp villas across a classical landscape - is built into his early paintings. It was reinforced when, as an art student in Munich, he encountered the dreamlike, proto-surrealist canvases of the 19th century Swiss romantic Arnold Böcklin. By the time he settled in Turin in 1911, the meditative cast...
...press conference, we had to drive out to Waltham on a hot, damp evening, passing the time making "spirited" conjectures about the man we were to see and the movie he just made. There was none of the excitement you feel you should get when you're to meet someone applauded by Premiers and Presidents. For this particular important filmmaker was Stanley Kramer, the meeting-place was Brandeis, and the new film Bless the Beasts and Children. If shirts stuck to our backs at the conference, it wasn't tension but the weather...
...certainly, at any moment if there had been an attempt at rescue." Yet Sir Geoffrey insisted that he "never for a minute" felt that he had been abandoned by "dear old H.M.G." (Her Majesty's Government). His room was uncomfortable: "I slept on polyfoam padding, which was damp and after a while stank. I had a 2-ft. by 6-ft. space in which to exercise. There were also spiders there." Still, the ambassador emerged from his long confinement in relatively good health. Then why was his voice so hoarse? Explained Sir Geoffrey: "I have picked up what...
...night, emotions ran high. Tears and cheers for the music made for a loud, if damp, ovation. At the end of the première, Bernstein wept helplessly as the audience thundered its applause, then launched into a marathon fit of kissing everyone in reach. "May I kiss you one more time?" he asked Rose Kennedy. Said Rose gently; "I think it will ruin my makeup." Tact may have accounted for some of the praise, but in the case of 87-year-old Alice Roosevelt Longworth, daughter of Theodore Roosevelt and one of Washington's more outspoken oldtimers, tact...
...Osborne, who has shifted to the right in recent years, finds much to mourn in that civilization's passing. The bright, bitchy banter of the sisters-one notably played by Jill Ben nett (Mrs. John Osborne)-is pierced by nostalgia when the old writer reminisces about damp England, colonial days, his own youth when he never really felt young. The latter-day equivalent of Jimmy Porter, a visiting American hippie, can only splutter four-letter words in return, the abstract tokens of a rage that is blind and almost dumb...