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Though published in 1977, In the Miro District does not concern itself with the New South at all. The new collection of short stories by Peter Taylor, who was born in Tennessee 60 years ago, place the reader in the stereotype of an Old Southern atmosphere. Set in the days of the author's youth, the stories are ages apart from the breakneck speed of Cambridge (or even Memphis) life today. The author takes plenty of time to develop each of his stories, and never failing to announce his frequent digressions, speaks intimately to his audience, as he would...
Against the failure of some of the author's shorter prose poems and stories, the title story shows the author at his best. Three generations clash "In the Miro District." Again it is a grown-up adolescent who tells the story of his relationship with his grandfather. Following social convention, the middle generation has forced the two upon each other...
...Muhlbach as if he were a middle-aged door mat. Though he makes a fool of himself over her, he never loses his discretion or his cool collector's eye. Here is Muhlbach on entering Lambeth's apartment for the first time: "On the walls a cheap Miro print, a Tantra poster, a blowup of Humphrey Bogart, half a dozen tissue paper collages." On her shelves, "a picture book about Marilyn Monroe. Scientology. I Ching. M.C. Escher prints. One of Heyerdahl's raft trips. A bestseller by a formidable lady with three names...
...first celebrated works were a library in Viipuri and a tuberculosis sanatorium in Paimio. Their design was lean, clean, direct and even witty; in Aalto's hands, the meeting of an undulating ceiling and a wall could result in a line as playful and zesty as a Miro sketch...
Alexander Calder, prints and tapestries at Graphics I and II, 168 Newbury St. Calder has a magnificent sense of design and color--not since Matisse have tapestries been so exciting. Graphics is a good place to know; they have drawerfuls of Picasso, Miro, Matisse, etc., etc., just...