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DIED. Andre Eglevsky, 59, Russian emigre ballet dancer who started out with the Colonel de Basil Ballet Russe at age 14, was much in demand in the U.S. in the '40s and '50s as a leading dancer and, after that, as a coach who worked with such performers...
Embedded in this color is a profusion of shapes: balls and balusters, cubes, boxes, spikes, seamed and weathered palings, fragments of ogee and cavetto molding, the fossils of the Age of Wood. By now, Nevelson is a scavenger on a nearly industrial scale, given to buying up whole demolition contracts...
More than a year ago, Professor Zbigniew Brzezinski of Columbia University wrote an article for Foreign Policy magazine titled "America in a Hostile World." He called for a "new international economic order" and for new American leadership to help create it-a leadership that would set "politically and morally compelling...
Alluding discreetly to a few difficult moments, Field allows that his book "does not come with the recommendation of Vladimir Nabokov." There is, after all, the great man's general dislike of biographies, summed up in one word: "Psychoplagiarisms." There is also the autobiography Speak, Memory in which Nabokov...
Field carefully turns the native and foreign soils that have nurtured his subject: the Cambridge University days when Nabokov devoted most of his time to sports and writing Russian poetry; the vigor of exile literature in prewar Europe; dispersal of emigre energies and talents after the war began. Nabokov'...