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...exactly the scrambled eggs that Giscard had flippantly said would be sufficient when he first announced the plan. Well no, Mme. Cucchiarini conceded afterwards. But, she added, "it's not every night that the President comes to dinner." She insisted that she, her sister and sister-in-law had prepared all the food themselves, except for the bass, which came from a deli around the corner...
...believe that one could extract "essences" from nature-shapes that symbolized different kinds of force, growth and élan vital, and that constituted the inner structure of reality. This belief, which owed as much to Mme. Blavatsky and her ilk as to Henri Bergson, was common among early abstract artists. Its embodiment, for Dove, was in works like Team of Horses (1911), one of the first abstract paintings ever made in the U.S.: the curling shapes, fringed with sawtooth edges and inset between thick dark lines, are like a premonitory flicker of art deco, but Dove's intent...
...flamboyant, vain and bisexual painter named Henry Fuseli. The affair was predictably exciting and predictably disastrous, a power struggle that ended in the humiliating scene: Mary begging Fuseli's wife to allow a ménage à trois in which Mary was to be a purely "spiritual partner." Mme. Fuseli was not agreeable. In France, where Mary's fervor for the French Revolution was eventually chilled by the Terror, she fell in love with a flaky American adventurer named Gilbert Imlay; he left her with an illegitimate daughter. No biographer can be expected to re-create the desperate...
...begun," began the countdown by Joseph Alsop in his syndicated newspaper column. The acerbic Washington watcher has been alluding to his upcoming retirement so often in recent columns, however, that some readers began to wonder whether he might be setting the stage for a series of farewell performances, like Mme...
...Valery Giscard d'Estaing entrusted the bill to Health Minister Simone Veil, 47, mother of three. She argued the case with intelligence and controlled passion. Only once did she lose her composure-when a centrist Deputy shouted, "Madame Minister, do you want to send children to the ovens?" Mme. Veil, a survivor of Auschwitz who saw her parents and brother perish in the ovens of World War II, scribbled a note of protest to the Deputy: "I cannot accept such statements in view of my past, with which, perhaps, you are not acquainted...