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...embrace. So it was with Paul Gauguin, who for a century has fired the escapist imagination with his rejection of conventional life and academic painting for la vie Tahitienne and a bold new art. Paul Gauguin: Life and Work, by Michel Hoog (Rizzoli; 332 pages; $85), presents the Gauguin legend on a grand scale, from the artist's exotic Peruvian boyhood to his South Seas idyll. Hoog, chief curator at Musee de l'Orangerie in Paris, integrates the painter's biography with a broad representation of his work. The result forcefully demonstrates how a large and restless talent broke...
...Worlds of Wonder, in particular, the next four weeks may determine whether the company survives. The fledgling firm, founded in 1985 in Fremont, Calif., became an industry legend on the strength of two blockbuster toys: Teddy Ruxpin, the personable talking bear that debuted in 1985, and last year's Lazer Tag ray-gun game. The company, soon known aptly enough as WOW, chalked up earnings of $18.6 million on sales of $327 million during its past fiscal year, making it one of the fastest-growing new manufacturing concerns in history. But in the view of industry analysts, the company expanded...
...guard position is freshman Ralph James, who appears to be a legend in themaking. Coming from basketball powerhouseArchbishop Molloy in New York, James is consideredby many to be the top freshman in the Ivy League...
...committees last spring, he read a treacly ode to the Marine colonel penned by none other than John Hull. The contras gain sustenance, the poem read, from the "knowledge that on this troubled earth there still walk men like Ollie North . . . In our lifetime, you have given us the legend...
...they're phony too, and beneath the glamour not very happy. Tales from the Hollywood Hills, a trio of short-story adaptations set in Tinseltown during the 1930s, trots out all the beloved stereotypes while flavorfully recapturing Hollywood's legendary golden age. Then, boldly, the mini-series abandons the legend and goes for a more subtly shaded truth...