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There are pleasant things, to be sure, in all of this, and there is one strong feat of acting. But there is no harmony of mood or certainty of movement; trying its luck with this thing and that, Camelot has made a fish pond of its story rather than a widening stream, and provides an evening that for all its sumptuous adornments seems curiously empty...
...started painting in earnest after World War I, when he settled in the French village of Giverny on the Seine. There he would spend hours watching his ancient neighbor Claude Monet paint his lily pond. He went to Chartres and was overwhelmed by the cathedral windows, in Paris became the friend of Picasso, Miró and Braque, before returning to the U.S. for good in 1939. He passed through an impressionist phase, dabbled in cubism. But the rise of Hitler convinced him that any art not primarily concerned with moral and spiritual issues...
...garter, that Homer used as models. There were his old watercolor brushes, a newly discovered sketch book, a rumpled storm cap, a fishing net he used as a prop. These were the artist's simple possessions-and for long periods of time, his only companions. "That Duck Pond." To his friends, there was always something of a mystery about why he suddenly quit New York and withdrew to Maine. Some said it was because he wanted to cut down on his drinking; others claimed he was miffed at the critics; Homer himself said it was to escape jury duty...
...happiest when he could go out in a storm, "robed head to foot in rubber," and when the ocean calmed down he contemptuously referred to it as "that duck pond." Though he traveled each year, he would stay up in Maine by himself until just before Christmas. The wind howled around him, the temperature dropped to 12 below. But Winslow Homer was happy...
Telling the Time. In summer there were weekend fishing excursions to Smithfield Pond ("They had lovely beaches, and the water wasn't too cold. I can remember how we used to ride the horses into the lake"). Birthdays were always special celebrations, with ice cream from the hand freezer on the back stoop. Soon after her twelfth birthday, Maggie went to work on Saturdays at Green Brothers' for io/ an hour. As a high school girl, she often filled in as night switchboard operator at the local telephone company. One of her frequent callers, who usually wanted...