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Even in this age of instant obsolescence, fashionable slang wears out faster than most commodities. What is very lively in Kansas City today may brand a user as quaint in Manhattan or the Bay Area. It thus becomes periodically necessary, as French Poet Stéphane Mallarmé once suggested, donner un sens plus pur aux mots de la tribu -to purify the dialect of the tribe...
Abstract & Concrete. Gilmore be gan his law career late. He went to Boston Latin and to Yale (where he was a junior Phi Beta Kappa), got a doctorate in Romance languages after writing a dissertation on the 19th century French poet Stéphane Mallarmé that is still quoted by scholars. He became a teacher almost inevitably. "If one takes Romance languages, one teaches," he says. But after four years, "I couldn't stand it any longer." At 29, he went into law "because it seemed an available thing. Soon, however, I began to find it challenging...
...experience of abstract art, from cubism through abstract expressionism, which has taught many that art need represent neither a thing nor an emotion; luminal art, though radiantly handsome, generally does neither. Pop played a role in making commercial techniques acceptable. Peter Myer, 32, constructed Transit Orb out of cello phane designs and polarized plastic filters, which are more commonly used for sunglasses. Manhattan's Earl Reiback, 31, a onetime nuclear engineer, even has fun in taking an object-one of six different nudes-and then modulating the image into total abstraction. To accomplish this, he built his Luminage Projector...
Motherwell proved a fast learner. The great lesson "of what modern art is all about," he believes, was first stated by French Symbolist Poet Stéphane Mallarmé in 1864: "Paint not the thing, but the effect it produces." For the young Motherwell, the easiest way to set this down was by combining oil, gouache and pieces of torn paper. Today his elegantly signed collages-which often combine pieces of French Gauloises cigarette packages, an envelope from his English bookseller or a football ticket-sell for from $3,500 to $5,500, are considered by connoisseurs the most elegant...
...social pace in the nation. On a good night, as many as seven cocktail parties run simultaneously, and $2,000 buffets for 100 people, usually catered by Mrs. William Randolph-Hearst's former butler, are more a rule than an exception. Complains Paris Match's New York Correspondent Stéphane Groueff: "The problem