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Died. Gabriele Münter, 85, eminent German expressionist painter and one of the key founders of the fabled Blue Rider group of modern artists (Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, Paul Klee), a mournful, gentle Berliner who was Abstractionist Kandinsky's longtime mistress and just last year received her first U.S. one-woman show; after a long illness; in Murnau, Germany. Kandisnky jilted her during World War I, but left her 120 oils and countless graphics (valued at more than $500,000), which the scorned Gabriele left unwrapped for 43 years until 1957 when, without so much as a glance...
...hears new aphorisms from his bene factor's mistress ( Nadia Gray). "Life is an auction." she tells him. "Men put up their muscles or their brains, women their bodies. It's all the same." Sellers finally comprehends. Putting up his brains, trimming his beard, he pursues what he can now clearly see is the good life. He overpowers the crook he works for and spirals upward, swiftly becoming an international financier, running stupendous treasuries through his fingers like sand. The camel jumps gracefully through the eye of the needle into the sheer heaven of riches on earth...
...familiar: a grand but now slightly shabby English country house; a London flat admirably fitted for infidelity; serene countryside across which one can hear an epigram drop at 50 paces.' The plot seems unpromising. Will bumbly Sexagenarian Hugh Peronett find Indian summer satisfactory with his renounced ex-mistress Emma now that his wife is dead? Will his caddish son Randall leave his long-suffering wife? And what of sensible, sixtyish Mildred Finch, who has-loved old Hugh from afar for more than 20 years...
...keep her virtue? Will Youngblood be able to pay the Internal Revenue Service the hundreds of thousands of dollars he owes in back taxes? Time after time, when he seems on the point of balancing Hawke's fiscal or romantic accounts, a new tax lien or an old mistress shows up. Jeanie skips teasingly ahead of Youngblood for most of the book's 783 pages, and it may be taken as proof that the Romantic Age is finally over that in the end it is not the girl but the Treasury Department that gets the hero...
...episode that owes far less than its creator imagines to the writings of Kafka. Still, there are plots. One of them allows a loathsome young man to be purged of childhood guilt by visiting the apartment of one of his former high school teachers, who was also the antiquated mistress of the young man's best friend. Without opening the door, the hero realizes from the smell seeping out of the apartment that the teacher is dead. He leaves, purged...