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...with White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger, who suggested it to Russian press attachés. Word eventually came back that Khrushchev liked the notion, and Adzhubei duly presented himself at Hyannisport, along with Interpreter Georgi Bolshakov, editor of the Russian English-language magazine U.S.S.R. He brought along a doll for Caroline Kennedy and, for John Jr., another doll with weighted bottom that returned upright each time it was punched over. "This doll is like the Russian people," said Adzhubei. "You can keep pushing it down, but it will always come...
Homage to Jacqueline. A strange, doll-like portrait shows his little daughter Paloma poking at some presents under a Christmas tree. His present wife Jacqueline makes her debut in 1954. One of the early portraits of her is a straightforward drawing of enormous tenderness. The final plate in the book is of a painting of three eels on a table. Picasso did it last year just after Jacqueline had cooked some eels for his lunch. On the back he wrote: "Homage to Jacqueline for a matelote that she prepared for lunch 3.12.60. offering to her through this painting a small...
Ghosts, written 80 years ago by Henrik Ibsen, is what might have happened to Nora if she had never left A Doll's House...
Tutors & Masters. The daughter of a Portuguese economist who died when she was two, Maria Vieira da Silva was raised by her mother and an uncle, who provided her with a string of tutors and encouraged her to become an artist. "They were like children who had a doll that could be taught tricks," she remembers. She began studying drawing and painting in earnest at the age of eleven, took up sculpture at 16, moved to Paris at 19. There she studied under masters: Sculptor Emile Antoine Bourdelle, Painter Fernand Léger, Engraver Stanley Hayter...
...months, as it turned out, for by last week, Tuesday (who was born Susan on a Thursday less than 18 years ago) had flown her mother's Hollywood Hills coop, settled into her own nine-room nest in Bel Air, complete with built-in hifi, patio and doll house...