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...WATKINSES OF BERKELEY. Ted and Fran Watkins, married eight years ago, began in the traditional pattern: he taught school, and she kept house. Today Fran, 29, is program coordinator of Berkeley, Calif., radio station KPFA; Ted, 34, stays home and tends their son Sam, 7, and daughter Storm, 3. Ted has learned to cook well, and he does most-but not all-of the routine cleaning, washing and shopping. Fran shares in the household chores after work and on weekends. "I don't like to say our family is committed to Women's Lib," she says. "I think...
...plans to go back to work again periodically, probably as a research economist. "He can make much more money than I can," Fran explains. "But I wanted to work and take a lot of the responsibility for the financial side of the family. I think Ted was able to accept this because he is a strong person with a very strong identity." Ted likes working as an economist, she says, but also enjoys "being with the children, making jewelry and painting the house." They have a joint checking account...
...from her previous marriage, who often visits them. But Picasso's isolation from his own offspring is nearly absolute. His first son, Paul, is now 50 and lives in Paris; his daughter by Marie-Thérèse Walter lives in Spain; and his two children by Françoise Gilot, Claude, 24, and Paloma, 22, were cut out of his life and virtually deprived of support from their millionaire father during one of his fits of rage over their mother's memoirs, Life With Picasso. Only work remains...
...Picasso's life, he made a disastrous marriage to one of Diaghilev's dancers, a Russian girl named Olga Koklova. Picasso, as several of "his" women have made clear, was never an easy man to live with. As he put it bluntly to his later mistress Françoise Gilot, women are for him "either goddesses or doormats." (Picasso, not Mailer, is the century's monument of narcissism and male chauvinism...
...LATEST YEARS: 47. First Steps-1943; 48. Woman in Armchair (Portrait of Françoise Gilot)-1952; 49. Portrait of Madame H.P.-1952; 50. The Women of Algiers (after Delacroix)-1954; 51. Portrait of Sylvette David-1954; 52. Portrait of J.R. with Roses-1954; 53. Woman by a Window-1956; 54. Aries: The Arena in Front of the Rhone-1960; 55. Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe-1961; 56. The Artist and His Model-1963; 57. Rembrandt and Saskia-1963; 58. The Sabines-1963; 59. Femme Couchée-1964; 60. Tête d'Homme...