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...HENRI MATISSE by Louis Aragon. 2 vols., 721 pages. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. $75. The publication of this eccentric, often brilliant, book was one of the major events in the French art world. Aragon, whose talent as a poet-novelist has long been buried under his notoriety as a Marxian apologist, met Matisse in 1941, and until the painter died in 1954 spent hours in his studio at Cimiez talking about the creative process. It took Aragon 27 years to put together his notes on those conversations and Matisse's comments. Aragon can be the most digressive of writers. Luckily...
...PepsiCo deal involves hard as well as soft drinks. The company will import a whole bar shelf of Soviet liquors, including vodka, brandy, cordials and wine, which will be marketed by Monsieur Henri Wines Ltd., a PepsiCo division. Under an ingenious sales-incentive plan, the quantity of Pepsi allowed in Russia will be tied directly to the sale of Soviet potables to Americans. In effect, sharp Soviet traders found a way to get an aggressive American firm to push their liquor hard. PepsiCo officials are also pleased, since U.S. products have high prestige in Russia and sell almost instantly...
...fact, a comparatively restrained one. The messiah in question was Henri Gaudier, a gifted French sculptor who, having emigrated to London, became a central figure in the avant-garde before being killed in World War I at the age of 24. Russell's theme is the long, violent and platonic love affair between Gaudier and a neurotic Polish writer almost twice his age, Sophie Brzeska, whose name he joined to his. Hampered by poverty, his life truncated at a moment when most artists are only beginning to work, Gaudier-Brzeska did not produce a large body of sculpture...
...random and incidental like that of the cavalry officer's, but also structure our perceptions of the characters by revealing their common anxieties. Francois dreams they were invited to a dinner party which turned out to be part of a stageplay. The six diners beat a hasty retreat leaving Henri before the theater lights agonizing that he has forgotten his lines...
These sorts of hyperbolic vignettes are piled one stop the other without logic or order. Russell has no intrinsic rationale for his boned-up effects. It's pure Hollywood chi-chi. The movie lasted less than a week in Boston. Consider for example a scene of Sophie and Henri husting stones by the seashore. He scales a lower of white rock, and straddling he peak, black cape whipping in the winds, he cuts a lone prophet figure against a clear sea; meanwhile the dances out her care-free spiritual applause on the sand, crying. "It will be a hymn...