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...that is most convulsive in Picasso's art and modernism generally: Les Demoiselles d'A vignon. His eclecticism -another of the virtuoso's traits-produced incessant raids on other styles, from Pompeian murals, 17th century Dutch etchings and Ingres drawings to Dogon masks and Mogul miniatures. Few great artists since Rembrandt had amassed, and used, such a hybrid pile of objects from art or nature as Picasso; variety was his sauna. He had a mysterious capacity, now documented through an almost limitless range of motifs and graphic flourishes, to become whatever caught his attention...
Died. Walter Reade Jr., 56, movie-theater mogul and part-time producer (A Taste of Honey, 1962; Ulysses, 1967), who helped build his family's original 1908 investment in a Port Chester, N.Y., vaudeville house into the Walter Reade Organization, Inc., that now owns 80 U.S. movie theaters; of suffocation, after falling headfirst into a snow bank while skiing; in St. Moritz, Switzerland...
...your cover story "Holiday on Skis" [Dec. 25]: I do not argue with doctors who deny that the ultraviolet rays encountered while skiing have an aphrodisiac effect. However, the sheer sensual experience of the warm sun, snow spray in the face, weightless microseconds on a mogul, the symphony of wind blowing through pine forests, thrills of speed, danger and precision and not insignificantly, the form-fitting nature of ski clothing create in this skier a desire for more than a quiet evening with a good book...
...held its 74th annual meeting at Salt Lake, a desolate flat on the edge of Calcutta. Eighteen months ago, the flat was jammed with thousands of Bangladesh refugees. Last week between 30,000 and 40,000 party regulars met in a $700,000 tent city as princely as a Mogul encampment. Party Leader Indira Gandhi was housed in an elegant $107,000 "hut," which aides hastened to explain would serve as a guest house for a housing project to be built on the site. Nonetheless, New Delhi newsmen were stunned by its magnificence and reported that it had two gates...
...subculture that nonskiers sometimes have difficulty understanding. Initiates speak their own language, a conglomeration of English, German, French and jargon. A rather hyperbolic example-"I was wedeling this head-wall loaded with bathtubs and decided to make a gelandy over a tree stump when I found myself in a mogul field, so I used my avalement and then tried an old-fashioned ruade, but caught an edge, slipped out of my toe piece, helicoptered down the fall line and wound up with a spiral in the tibia."* Besides, there is the legendary ambience of après-ski, which...