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THEATER A witty emigre's view of immigrants in America 59
Consequently, Adobe sells many copies of Robert Slimbach's recent "Minion" (the face in which this text is set), a neo-classical type to the mass market, but alternative type foundries such as Emigre and fontshop International survive as well. Experimental typographers, having given up on the traditional, roman letterform...
OF ALL THE COMPOSERS TO EMERGE FROM the collapse of the Soviet Union, the most significant is ALFRED SCHNITTKE. Long a word-of-mouth favorite of emigre artists like violinist Gidon Kremer, Schnittke, 58, has a firm grasp of structure, a masterly hand with orchestration and, most important, a distinctive...
Every family should have a painting like this -- huge (10 ft. by 6 ft.) and vastly heroic. The man in the white coat is none other than Richard Nixon, memorialized as Vice President in 1956, when he consoled Hungarian refugees in Austria after the Hungarian revolution. The painting, by Hungarian...
Like the author's previous The Russian Years, this concluding volume benefits mightily from the cooperation of Nabokov's widow and son. But their assistance should not overshadow biographer Boyd's ability to penetrate the mysteries of , the great novelist's art and life with uncommon insight and elegance. On...