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...coast-is almost worth traversing the particularly bad roads or risking the frequently canceled air trip. Once there, tourists can take a two-hour horseback ride up La Ferriere mountain to visit the ruins of the Citadelle, a huge stone fortress built by one of Haiti's liberators, Henri Christophe, to ward off an invasion that never came...
THOUGH THE PAST DECADE and a half has not been distinguished by pioneer literary criticism, it was certainly an age of great literary biographies. A few primary examples come to mind: Richard Elimann's biography of James Joyce (1959). W.J. Bate's of John Keats (1963), Henri Troyat's of Tolstoy (1967) and Leon Edel's of Henry James of which the final volume appeared early in 1972. All are definitive studies and brilliant. Quentin Bell's new biography of the British feminist critic and novelist. Virginia Woolf, while lacking the voluminous scope of some recent works because it intentionally...
...bien, he has a very pretty little rear end. It's almost dishonest competition." Similarly sympathetic was Actress Catherine Deneuve, who allowed that she was "weary of naked women. Let's have some nude men, s'il vous plait." Among those outraged by the spectacle was Henri Larivière, a professional poster plasterer. In a rearguard action, as it were, he partially covered some of the posters with white rectangular patches that the French television network uses as a warning against material that is "not for minors...
Compared with such elaborate efforts, the most artistically significant vestments of modern times-Henri Matisse's chasubles for the chapel he designed and decorated at Vence-seem almost transparently simple: a collage of patches. Yet their airy lucidity of color, their instinctive brightness, attests to a different type, but not a lower intensity of faith...
HARVARD-EPWORTH CHURCH. Pianissimo by Carmen D'Avino. World of Paul Delvaux by Henri Storck. A Study in Choreography for Camera by Maya Deren. Allues by Jordan Belson. Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania by Jonas Mekas, tonight...