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...vain. Inevitable, inexorable, creeps forward the tide of men's despair in this petty world of fact ("There was a flood in Boston in 1835, maybe there will be again"). And all will be in vain forever, gurp, forever ("If it was 1835 I wouldn't have to go on my unicycle to Revere Beach, I could drown in my room...
DIED. Bram Van Velde, 86, melancholic Dutch-born abstract expressionist painter; in Grimaud, France. Van Velde's life before World War II was almost a prototype of the lot of the unrecognized artist: hunger, despair and an unending search for patrons. After the war, he attracted supporters who saw in his work a sense of the absurd that reflected the existentialist experience. Commented Playwright Samuel Beckett: "He confronts without restriction and complacency the anguishes of our time...
...career-ending disease of Cellist Jacqueline du Pré. But in its London version, there were no easy answers-no answers at all-for this driven young woman. As played by Frances de la Tour, she was a figure of shy, rueful dignity who achieved heroism by confronting her despair...
...cigar, thrusting it into Don José's mouth at the words "L'amour, I 'amour. " In its total bleakness this is Carmen seen by a man familiar with Alban Berg's operas Wozzeck and Lulu, twin 20th century masterpieces of love, alienation and despair. The production also reflects Brook's distaste for conventional Bizet, which goes back to the time, 30 years ago, when he was production chief at London's Royal Opera House. "I looked with horror at how it was being presented. It had become a mausoleum." Controversy is nothing...
...others because of a controversial state decision in September. Bowing to strong pressure from an Indian heritage group led by William Pink, 31, the state parks and recreation department agreed to allow the tribes to reclaim bones and artifacts from its collection in Sacramento. Curator Francis Riddell was in despair: "We're giving back what I spent 25 years excavating and preserving." The Yuroks reburied their bones in an unmarked plot to guard against future looters. The field at Patrick's Point, though it now belongs to the state, is part of an ancient burial ground that...