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...program- the Balanchine-Stravinsky Agon-to electrify the audience. More sophisticated and far more abstract than Russian ballet fans are accustomed to, it moved even dissenters to applaud at certain high points. The upper galleries, jammed with younger members of the audience, erupted in noise at the curtain. Ballerina Olga Lepeshinskaya, a Bolshoi mainstay, remarked that although she was against abstract dancing in general...
...girl. Finally, to exorcise this succubus, Simone wrote her first successful novel, L'Invitee, which told how a young woman moved in on a sympathetic couple and so demoralized them that the wife eventually murdered her. Of this denouement. Authoress de Beauvoir says: "By killing Olga on paper I purged every twinge of resentment ... I felt for her ... Above all, by releasing [ the wife], through the agency of crime, from the dependent position in which her love for Pierre [i.e., Sartre] kept her. I regained my personal autonomy." The triangle collapsed...
...interview with the famous writer has been developed almost into a literary form by Paris Review. In recent issues Frederick Seidel draws Robert Lowell into revealing angular lights in his prismatic mind, and Olga Carlisle lets Ilya Ehrenburg reveal his rich store of platitude. In Contact the bitterly brilliant Philip O'Connor presents a series of capsule interviews with aging writers of the British Establishment, "gentlemen in and out of letters," ranging from Bertrand Russell to Poet-Essayist Herbert Read. And in Evergreen Robert Stromberg shows another side of the late maligned (and malignable) Louis-Ferdinand Céline...
Sometimes he painted her in the style of his Blue Period, other times rather in the mode of Toulouse-Lautrec. By 1918 Picasso and Fernande had parted, and that year he married the dancer Olga Koklova, by whom he had his son Paolo...
Picasso was already in his cubist period at the time, but his portrait of Olga was almost classic in its serenity. He separated from Olga shortly before plunging into an affair with Marie-Therese Walter by whom he had a daughter...