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...last week. He is a bachelor, and lives a most unpublic life. He has a stately manor house on 16 acres in Surrey½ hour commute from London. Owls hoot in the woodlands, the Rolls-Royce ticks in the drive, his horses neigh in the night, and his mastiff Candida barks. Inside, Dirk Bogarde communes with the telly. "After a hard day's work," he says, "I just want to slouch in front of a television set and watch other people make fools of themselves...
...boxwoods, a grape arbor, and mirrors on an inland wall that reflect the sea. A statue of St. Francis stands in the center in a filled-in pond that once, in another era, brimmed with gallons of champagne. At one end is a playpen big enough for a growing mastiff, but it only contains one tiny Kerr...
Before his death in 1560, at 94, the fleets of this fierce Genoese had many times confirmed his native city as master of the Mediterranean. Doria ships also helped Emperor Charles V in his struggles to win Italy. Charles rewarded him with a huge mastiff - and then a princedom "for the dog to run in." The admiral kept his palace staff hopping to the tune of bosun's pipes, once exercised his princely humor by order ing all his silver flung into the sea at a banquet's end. Afterwards Andrea Doria hauled his silver up again...
Vision of Carnage. Hodgson's latest poetry is filled with an old theme: fury at human cruelty to nature, to animals, to the imagination. In most of his uncompleted The Muse and the Mastiff, this theme is put in the mouth of an ancient wild bear, who seldom has a kind word for any other animal. To Hodgson, cruelty seems to be getting worse and worse in the hands of men ("I see such carnage in the future"). As for what may come to the world that he has broodingly watched from his lonely farmhouse for so many years...
...space that Velásquez implied. Velásquez himself has been erected into a towering, plastic figure on the left. The watcher in the doorway has been raised in ominous emphasis by reducing him to black silhouette. The dwarf has become a Charlie Brown cartoon, and the mastiff transformed into Picasso's own dachshund. The mysterious, airy space of the room's depth has been chopped into emphatic fragments by the invented windows on the right...