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Jamais! Indignantly, the prince charged that the telecast recounting the murder had been shown in 1963 without his permission. Its "sexual atmosphere" falsely implied that he lured Rasputin to his palace by "pandering" his beautiful young wife to the Siberian mystic. The still-striking Princess Irina Youssoupoff took the stand to state that she had never known nor ever seen Rasputin. And in angry French, denying that he used his wife as "seductive bait," the prince cried, "Jamais...
...ancient truth that poems are significant not as acrostics but as celebrations. He celebrated always the fundamental experiences: birth, copulation and death. And in his greatest lines he entered the mystery of existence itself and evoked the ecstasy of dissolution in the source of life. He was a matriarchal mystic who delivered verse from the tyranny of the intellect and created a modern poetry of the heart...
Sown Scraps. Mysticism threads itself not only through Gibran's work but through his life. As a boy of four in Bsherri, a village perched amid Lebanon's northern mountains, he sowed bits of torn paper in his garden and waited patiently for a harvest of full leaves. The mystic did not find a cult until he moved to the U.S., where he exhibited his drawings-which blend elements of William Blake and Maxfield Parrish-and held a kind of mystical court in his Greenwich Village studio...
...Square Peas. With such paintings as I and the Village, done in 1911, Chagall launched his own inimitable style. The painting blazes with a spectrum that vaults beyond the impressionists' naturalistic colored light and into a mystic realm. The imagery performs flip-flops, a peasant woman turns topsy below inverted roofs. Perspective is abandoned to a personal scale that adjusts the size of images to their importance. So a huge cow and a man nuzzle, centering on a vortex of color that abolishes depth. Like the flat saints of old Russian icons, his images beckon contemplation, summoning memories from...
...Last Ism. Soviet critics, too, were soon after Chagall's hide, dubbing his misbegotten revolution in art a "mystic and formalistic bacchanal." But the purge came from the quarter he least expected. He had hired two painters, Malevich and Lissitzky, members of the suprematist school of painting, to teach in Vitebsk's Free Academy. One day he returned from Moscow to find that they had taken over the school, and based its new curriculum on their brand of geometrical abstraction and pure objectivity...