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Masson's troubles began well before Malcolm's scathing portrait. After a meteoric rise in psychoanalytic circles, he was sacked from his heir apparency at the Freud Archives in 1981 for disparaging the private behavior of the founder of psychoanalysis and for attempting to debunk some of the master's key thinking on the prevalence and significance of child abuse -- an act of iconoclasm that Malcolm aptly termed self-destructive. Masson sued the Archives for $13 million and accepted a settlement of $150,000. Then he made another decision that in retrospect seems even more self-destructive: he agreed...
...lives, we might take them more readily to heart. If they suggested some generalized insights about lower-middle-class life, we might more readily forgive their dreary excesses. And if wishing could make it so, Neil Simon would be Anton Chekov's authentic, instead of his merely aspiring, heir. Which would make this a much better world to live...
Smith remains the true primary heir of Picasso and Gonzalez -- and, to some extent, of Giacometti, whose space constructions like The Palace at 4 A.M. inspired the young American artist in the '30s to make a series of small iron precincts and even a miniature iron house, complete with iron paintings on the walls. Curator Gimenez's choice of his work is an exemplary condensation. Beginning with those initial Surrealist images, it picks up on the early sculptures that clearly indicate the bent of his talent, such as Amusement Park, 1938, a small work that both remembers Picasso's iron...
...owners stick to their resolve not to open the spring-training camps unless the players agree to hold the line on salaries. Already the game has lost its supreme arbiter; for the first time since 1921, a season will open with no commissioner of baseball or heir apparent. In the counting houses off the field, schemes are being hatched to transform the leisurely unfolding of the 162-game season into a juiced-up MTV video, complete with expanded play- offs, wild-card teams, Monday-night interleague contests and heedless expansion certain to dilute the quality of the game. Traditionalists...
...Lozone, conceived during his mother's fruitful collision with a sperm-soaked Sicilian tomato. A bright, lonely boy could not be the spawn of this horrid clan. Surely he is not destined to replicate their mean lives and dead-end careers or the madness to which they are all heir. And so, in this slum of bruised humanity that never seems quite human to him, where "the birds endlessly bitch about winter," Leo will scribble his thoughts about his family. He will erect a castle of words on the fertile ground of his imagination, on the fetid soil...