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Perhaps it is not in the holiday spirit to feel that this oeuvre has any faults or limitations at all. But it does; what serious painter's does not? Their nature can be assessed by comparing the "early" with the "late" de Kooning. When the slight, pale Dutch youth smuggled himself into America without proper papers in 1926, he brought with him something that very few of his colleagues in the New York School of the '40s and '50s would turn out to have: a thorough, guild-based art training that centered on formal drawing...
...runny-nosed boy called Clouk. "When I gave birth to this beautiful young man," the author later recalled, "he was ugly, something of a runt, and sickly, suffering from swollen adenoids." He bored her. As a result, "Clouk awoke from a few months' sleep, cast off his pale little slough like a molting snake, emerged gleaming, devilish, unrecognizable." The creature that resulted from this metamorphosis was soon to make himself at home in the bed of another of Colette's celebrated characters, Léa, the retired courtesan. Upon reading the final version of Chéri, Andr...
January 15--With finals just about to begin, students are intrigued and faintly worried by a peculiar meteorological phenomenon--blue snow. Ranging in shade from deep purple to pale cobalt over the course of six hours, the color seems to be strictly local; it is darkest and heaviest between Mass. Ave. and the river, and peters out as nearby as Allston and Somerville. Nevertheless, fears of some strange chemical reaction brought on by research--perhaps nuclear research in Harvard laboratories--begins to mount...
...ignorant hopeful pre-freshman was I. Although raised beyond the pale of college hockey. I learned all about the ECAC, the Beanpot, and Harvard vs. B.U. from PBS broadcasts in the mid-'70s (sadly discontinued). Rereading old accounts of Dave Connors's sudden-death heroics confirmed that the game was, indeed, a Big Deal...
...Japanese: "Japanese-American friendship is forever." Communist depu ties boycotted the session, but their empty seats only underscored the impotence of the left in present-day Japan. A fist-shaking demonstration by more than 1,000 protesters near Haneda Airport as the Reagans were about to arrive was a pale shadow of the mass snake-dancing "demos" the Japanese left used to stage in the 1960s and early '70s; this time, the marching leftists could not even distract nearby golfers and baseball players...