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Bent does not begin in the death camp, but on a hung-over morning after a dissolute evening of booze, cocaine and sadomasochistic pastimes. The apartment of Max and his dancer-lover Rudy (David Marshall Grant) is broken in on by Storm Troopers. The two flee but are subsequently captured. The Nazi goons begin beating Rudy viciously and order Max to do the same. He begins in utter dismay, recognizes what he has been degraded to, and in an orgy of self-loathing deals his lover the final fatal blow. To amuse themselves further, the guards then order...
MARRIED. Kurt Vonnegut, 57, novelist-laureate of the counterculture generation (Slaughterhouse-Five, Jailbird); and his companion of nine years, Jill Krementz, 39, a Manhattan photographer-author (A Very Young Dancer); he for the second time, she for the first; in New York City...
...ivory statuette soon stood tall in the art deco movement. Isadora Duncan by Alberto Savinio (Franco Maria Ricci; 184 pages; $125) shows just how exquisite some of these miniature sculptures became. All works pictured here were inspired, in one way or another, by the blithe spirit of American Dancer Isadora Duncan. Artists like Demeter Chiparus and Friederich Preiss, whose names are familiar today only to collectors, shaped ivory as if it were butter; the dancing figures they carved were adorned with bronze and stood or reclined on bases of marble or onyx. Many of the statuettes hover at the brink...
...hospital seminars. Readers of the Ladies' Home Journal chose Kübler-Ross as one of eleven "women of the decade" for the 1970s. Even the movies are beginning to take account of the phenomenon: Bob Fosse's forthcoming film, All That Jazz, features a death-obsessed dancer-director who turns to Kübler-Ross's works for comfort...
Baryshnikov at Work by Mikhail Baryshnikov (Knopf; $11.95). The Russian dancer's apolitical descriptions of the roles he has played. It should be read in conjunction with To Dance: The Autobiography of Valery Panov (Knopf; $15), another refugee who knew when to jump...