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...much of its beauty. But Picasso was also a master of expression. He could give a bronze skull a terrible, impacted and bulletlike solidity, the very reductio of death; or paint a jug so that it seemed distended with anxiety; or confer on the rounded limbs of his mistress in the '30s, Marie-Therese Walter, a rhythmic and sensuous languor that might otherwise have vanished from the nude after Ingres. No modern artist has been able to pack more sensation into a form than this Spaniard, engaged in his lifelong conversation with Eros and Thanatos...
...shroud of estrangement from three of his grown children that had clouded Picasso's last years also marred his death. For reasons never entirely clear, Maya, Picasso's daughter by his longtime mistress Marie-Thérèse Walter, and Claude and Paloma, his children by Françoise Gilot, had been prevented from seeing their father in recent years. Last week the same sad situation prevailed. Indeed, this time police were on hand to turn away Marie-Therese and other old friends who came to pay their respects...
...best friends. This is one of the consequences of living, as all the characters do, in an airbrushed world, in which everyone and everything is stylized and charming. No stray marks, no smudges, no coloring outside the lines in this crayon book. Every man seems to keep a beautiful mistress of firm breasts and docile character. David's down and out artist friends have that fashionably seedy look which has replaced plaids on the Fly Club veranda. One can hardly blame characters for their easy attraction to each other in a universe of this sort...
Bergman's attitude towards women is "marvelous and unique; men approach women as mother or mistress figures, and Bergman's own stance is so refreshing because he really loves women," Simon said...
...deceits are grand and complicated. He has persuaded his wife and his primary employer that the editorship of an occasionally published house organ constitutes demanding, full-time employment. His Manhattan mistress and his favorite bartender believe he is an agent for the CIA. To keep body and body together in town while financing family life in Connecticut, Howard secretly sells real estate. To him an old ruin is a "very good house for learning household skills...