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Hence his sheaves of cloud studies, done from observations on Hampstead Heath. He did not use the broken col ors and blue shadows which, after a century of impressionism, we still imagine as necessary for telling a truth about light. A work like Dedham Lock and Mill, c. 1819, is straight tonal painting...
Folk Mystique. Married only three years ago, Bates, 38, has taken to domesticity with enthusiasm. He and his wife Victoria have a house in London's expensive Hampstead area but spend much of their time with their two-year-old twin sons in a converted barn next to his parents' home in Derbyshire. There the Midlands meet the North Country and green hedges give way to gray stone walls. "Alan is a Derbyshire boy," says Actor Jeremy Brett, a close friend. "That's one better than being a Welshman. The Derby hills have a magic like...
Stopping at a Hampstead pub one day last week with his third wife, Actress Mia Farrow, Previn mused about his new life: "Some critics complain that I'm too facile, too concerned with sound rather than content. That hurts because I work hard, damned hard. But I do enjoy most making an orchestra 'sound,' making it project and play with the wish to sound beautiful. Do you know, every time I walk through Festival Hall when it's deserted, I'm moved? I realize I've achieved what I've always wanted...
...barricades, whether in Spain or Israel. Squeezed now in a moral vise between "the old and resentful have-everythings and the young know-nothings," Jake cultivates his own garden, "inflated with love but ultimately self-serving and cocooned by money." Swishing a brandy at his fashionable Hampstead house, he is riddled by an anxiety that retribution is approaching. He looks for it in imagined bodily diseases, in natural disasters, in persecution by "the injustice collectors...
...Style. Even Freud's daughter Anna, 73, the founder and director of the Hampstead Child Therapy Clinic in London and one of his school's most progressive heirs, sadly acknowledges that psychoanalysis seems to be going out of style. "Young people now are not interested in man's struggle against himself, but in man's struggle against society," she said last year in Manhattan. "They see that what psychoanalysis may lead to is adaptation to society. That's the last thing they have in mind...