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...exhibit includes a number of works that are rarely seen owing to their fragility and sensitivity to light. Among the highlights: Seurat's A Sunday on La Grande Jatte -- 1884, the masterpiece most closely identified with the institute; Rembrandt's Young Woman at an Open Half-Door; Degas's pastel On the & Stage; Cezanne sketchbooks; Picasso prints and Walker Evans photographs. Through...
...later piece, "Light, Dry Poem" (1938), exemplifies Klee's experiments with color and texture. On burlap, black lines surround pastel shapes. The place seems to be Klee's expression of his belief that "art does not render the visible; rather it makes visible...
...scene that many Angelenos worry about at night took place recently at the Imperial Courts housing project, a low-rise sprawl of faded blue pastel walls and barred windows in the mostly black district of Watts. John Beatty, a big, bearded African American, is coordinator of an alternative school that tries to rescue dropouts. Two weeks ago he led eight teenage boys in a discussion to caution them about events that might grow out of the King and Denny cases. All the boys agreed on the likely outcome: trouble. And if violence were to break out again, they told...
Connoisseurs of musicals know that the story has limitations. The Phantom can sing only one kind of song to Christine: I-adore-you-and-you-ab hor-me. Poor pastel Raoul can never be much more than a Parisian Freddy Eynsford-Hill. And yet -- in the magnificent Lloyd Webber version, the appealing Yeston-Kopit or even the lame Ken Hill -- the story works. The Phantom and Christine sing ) their volcanic sentiments in a plot as spare and potent as legend...
Holly Golightly and her nameless cat inhabit a barely furnished apartment in a Manhattan brownstone. Golightly peeks out from behind her door one morning to find that she has a new downstairs neighbor. Even wearing a wrinkled tuxedo shirt, a pastel blue sleeping mask pushed up on her forehead and purple-tassled earplugs in her ears, Hepburn conjures an almost unearthly elegance onscreen...