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...sense, the manufacture of art is packaging the world. In the process, landscape, bric-a-brac and dreams may end up bundled together like tiny attics whose contents are reminiscent of the character of mankind. Joseph Cornell is just such an archivist, boxing trinkets that Huckleberry Finn might have put in his pockets, together with talismans as portentous as astronomical charts...
...books mirror the savage and embittered cynicism that lies on the other side of humor, and all of them are touched with violence and the despair of a man who courted the values of his time and despised himself for doing so. The raft on which Huck Finn and Nigger Jim drift down the river was Twain's own fantasy solution for evading nemesis. It was where he longed...
...position in literature: he was a true original, unmistakably and incorrigibly American. But critics have endlessly speculated on the astonishing and unfathomable range of a man who could address himself to such disparate subjects as frontier humor (Roughing It), the adventures of youth (Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), chastity (Joan of Arc), obscenity (1601, a privately published Twain excursion into four-letter Tudor conversation), and nihilistic despair (What...
...MICKIE FINN'S (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). A new music and entertainment series set in the San Diego nightery of the same name, and starring Proprietors Fred and Mickie Finn. Premi...
Nice Applause. Gorky-born Ashkenazy is a kind of Volga Huckleberry Finn who has made good. He won the Queen Elisabeth competition at Brussels when he was barely 19, the Tchaikovsky Prize in Moscow at 25, and since then has stormed every important auditorium in the world...