Word: enfante
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Married. Francoise Sagan, 26, prolific enfant terrible of French literature (Bonjour Tristesse, A Certain Smile, Aimez-vous Brahms); and Robert Westhoff, 31, lanky expatriate sculptor from Minneapolis who shares Sagan's addiction to fast sports cars (she spent five months recuperating after a 1957 crack-up); she for the second time, he for the first; in Barneville, Normandy...
...This business of being single," decided Billy Rose not long ago, "is like a big red and gold candy box which, when opened, has two lousy bonbons in it." Last week, fleeing the candy box, the retired Enfant Terrible of Broadway, now 62. took time off from filling out his collection of A.T.&T. shares (with 80,000, worth roughly $11 million, he is now the company's second biggest stockholder) to swell his collection of marriage licenses to four. For his latest fling at matrimony, Billy chose a familiar partner: ex-Showgirl Joyce Mathews, 42. to whom...
...pioneer in the controlled use of space in his writing and playing, and his tonal practices are totally original. He is also one of the great wits of jazz. Try one of the several records on which he appears as a solo pianist. Cecil Taylor occupies the position of enfant terrible of the piano which Monk once held. His music--sometimes only peripherally music--consists largely of totally free improvising. It is an exhilarating and frequently terrifying experience. His best work to date may be found on Candid 8006. The most important contributions to jazz piano since Bud Powell have...
...Amateur. If Walpole seems today the very voice of the ancien régime, in his own time he had something of the avant-garde about him, even a touch of the enfant terrible. He invented his own fopperies, adapted his own fiction from the medieval, translated his own pleasures from the French. He had the ruling-class horror of being a professional, yet in his amateur way could claim with much truth that "no profession comes amiss to me." He was a printer, an innovating builder, an M.P., an antiquary, a historian, a novelist, a playwright, a collector...
...theater for the city's Arena Stage Players. Along Tenth Street, which will be widened, Manhattan's William Zeckendorf is putting up a 1,000-room hotel, three big office buildings and dozens of shops, all surrounding a plaza to be named after City Planner L'Enfant...