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...could transmit their ideas to his students. As a disciplined draftsman, she was nearly the equal of De Kooning and better than Rothko or Still. Her perspective on the culture of modernism was more intellectual than Pollock's. So their matching was not that of a passive muse to a moody genius, but of one demanding eye to another that was more voracious and (at first) less sophisticated. Krasner had to carry two loads of self-doubt: his and hers. Most of the tune, Pollock had only his. No wonder that Krasner's full powers as an artist...
...decent drycleaner?" you muse, wishfully eyeing the vacant storefront. A deli? Please, let it be a deli...
...airline deregulation, which started in 1978, a two-tiered industry has come into existence. On the one hand are the old, giant, heavily unionized trunk carriers with high, fixed labor costs. Examples: Continental, Eastern and TWA. On the other hand are the new, small, nonunionized carriers. Examples: People Express, Muse Air and New York...
What cascades of academic glitter! What fine madness of the intelligentsia! What milling and wheedling! The wonderful persons circulated and chatted, drank and staggered, consumed "dip" (whatever that may be), and the like festive routine. Sing, Muse, of this catalogue of shits...
...comes Misha, 1983 edition, a busy man indeed. Into his private space-a space he defines with whipping spins, sudden leaps followed by trancelike stillness-comes a very young woman in red (Deirdre Carberry) to be partnered through soupy Glazounov waltz tunes. That is no easy job, since this muse is coltish and blithely selfabsorbed. Three more young women (Elaine Kudo, Nancy Raffa, Amanda McKerrow), wearing costumes that suggest old-fashioned pinafores, glide in and out. At the end, his red-geranium partner's having vanished, Baryshnikov is hypnotized by the retreating figure of McKerrow...