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...Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. There?s no reason-able explanation of Alexandre Dumas. He was a rich man. We note with inter-est that he went bankrupt in the theater. He was a revolutionary. His grandfather was a marquis, his grandmother was a negress. [He was] the wildest romance of a man, who could and did openly maintain at 70 numerous "establishments," and a literary factory as well, whose quantitative output in the arts is equaled only by Reubens? studio. ... ?Tis no secret and no shame either than the Chateau Monte Cristo was haunted by many ghostwriters, and that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Mercury, God of Radio | 8/27/2001 | See Source »

...landscapes somewhat reminiscent of Matisse. At a retrospective exhibition of his father's work at Los Angeles' Stuart David Galleries, De Niro Jr. was on hand for the opening. "I like my father's paintings very much," he says. In fact, Dad's first effort, Negress in a Bathtub, is now in his son's possession -but consigned to the closet till he finds the right place to hang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 19, 1978 | 6/19/1978 | See Source »

...strike is Jones masquerading as sophisticated literary figure, editor of "The Two Islands Review" (founded after "George's" Paris Review went soft), and Boswell to an American expatriate named Harry T. Gallagher. Gallagher is Jones as celebrity author and sexual psychopath-though his tentative adventures with a bi-sexual Negress nymphomaniac are so scantily drawn as to give the impression that Jones has mellowed with his marriages-yea, even become family-minded and moralistic. To read Gallagher-Hartley dialogue is to watch an author's dark urges confront his brighter ones, the latter, of course, winning out. After all, this...

Author: By Michael Sracow, | Title: Books The Merry Month of May | 3/16/1971 | See Source »

Though the Maremont collection includes three Leger pictures, three Hun-dertwassers, nine Dubuffets and 33 Klees, many of Maremont's most illustrious acquisitions are sculptures, among them Brancusi's mellifluous bronze Blonde Negress. Much of his art was bought on Maremont's twice-a-year buying trips to Europe. For many years, Maremont and his wife have been fixtures at the Venice Biennale, renting large boats and treating their 90-odd passengers to champagne evenings on the Grand Canal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Collectors: A. Life of Involvement | 3/29/1968 | See Source »

...girl's background. I can no longer tell who is rich and who is poor, or even who is black and who is white." Significantly enough, Swados made this comment with complete case to the reporters, and a group of three Sarah Lawrence girls which included a very light negress...

Author: By Paul S. Cowan and L. GEOFFREY Cowan, S | Title: Expansion Threatens Sarah Lawrence Ideal | 3/9/1963 | See Source »

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