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...seems bent on proving, quite unnecessarily, what she has already established: she is the most enterprising woman writer making records today. The Magazine, a spiraling cycle of songs organized around themes of loneliness, defiance, memory and renewal, seems as if it was long and hard in coming. Lustrous lines ("If there are three girls running,/ there are three girls running nowhere") alternate with hand-me-down Ferlinghetti, sometimes even in the same song ("We walk in easy snakes/ through the roulette rattling of the ethyl"). In songs like Juke Box Fury, the music, jazz inflected and flirtatiously arrhythmic, keeps...
...book's subtitle. "Kindness," in Author Wilson's mischievous sense, comes to mean an unnatural state of grace. Priscilla is one of those exasperating people who appear poised under all conditions. She can be part of someone's fantasy or grubby pursuit without misplacing a lustrous strand of her hair. Hughie Duncan, an irrevocable romantic and book editor, is allowed to worship her as an untouchable goddess. The physically and morally repugnant newspaperman Henry Feathers is granted bed privileges, partly out of pity and partly, as the author writes of this woman who is at her best...
...eternal glitter, gold is not lustrous to mine. Modern prospectors use bulldozers and giant stone crushers, processing seven tons of ore to recover a single ounce of gold. Stimulated by high prices, mining intensified in the late 1970s and has now reached boom stages...
...with an entourage that would pauper a Saudi prince, taking over entire floors of famous hotels. Like Henry VIII, a part he played with gusto in Anne of the Thousand Days, Burton lavished jewels on his consort: the 33-carat Krupp diamond, the 69-carat Cartier diamond and the lustrous Peregrina pearl that King Philip II of Spain gave Mary Tudor in 1554. Liz and Dick made a couple of good movies together, including Virginia Woolf and The Taming of the Shrew, and some fine glitzy entertainments, like The V.I.P.s, but for the most part their professional collaboration was disastrous...
Watteau managed to skim off Rubens' lustrous surface and endow it with a still greater sense of nuance, while leaving his master's tyrannous physicality behind. To look at his fētes champětres -those felicitously idealized gatherings of young lovers, planted on the unchanging lawn of a social Eden-is to think of pollen and silk, not flesh. Watteau was a great painter of the naked body, but his nudes tend to privacy and reflection. They are completely unlike Rubens' magniloquent blond wardrobes. He seems, for this reason, the more erotic artist...