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...JAMES R. MELLOW 528 pages. Praeger...
Their lives had some of the character and texture of an oldfashioned, well-upholstered novel. It is James Mellow's achievement that he has told the story carefully and unpretentiously in clear, uncluttered prose. The evidence is that the first part was the best. When Miss Stein, the privately tutored daughter of a California stockbroker, first went to Europe in 1903, she encountered young painters-Picasso, Braque, Matisse. She and her brother Leo began buying their pictures and aggressively befriending them. She clipped The Katzenjammer Kids from home newspapers for Picasso. The famous Saturday open-house evenings began...
Replied Bohlen: "It must be because you cut his budget." The mood was not always so mellow...
...MAIN ATTRACTION, of course, was Winter, a ghostly figure in silver-sparkled sneakers and knee pads to protect him during his stage acrobatics. Winter played keyboards, drums and sax with a vengeance, but the crowd reacted most to his haunting voice that can range from a mellow bass to a piercing shriek. Most of this show was shrieking, as Winter opened with his driving "Keep Playing That Rock and Roll" and went straight through to his last encore of "Undercover Man" without letting...
...audience was not in a mood for mellow ballads--they came to be rocked, numbed and dazzled. Winter left no discontent...