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...insisted that he was going to make Greased Lightning,” referring to the souped-up car that serves as a centerpiece of the musical’s plot. Ketelhohn’s art was a frequent sight around Cabot even aside from the sets. He painted the portrait of former House Masters Warren and Ann Wacker that now hangs in Cabot’s formal living room and also helped to design the House tie. A 991 Crimson article also described Ketelhohn’s construction of sculptures from trash. “For the past three days...
...those "Eureka!" moments. Now, we got it. We saw the maturity, the emotional wisdom in Goldman's libretto. His story - about two married couples who meet 30 years after the girls, chorines in a Ziegfeld-type revue, met their husbands-to-be - was revealed as a brilliant portrait of loves lost, ideals corrupted, obsessions curdled into desperation. Suburban infidelities truly could be the makings of bourgeois tragedy...
...Romping through reams of newly available tapes and transcripts, Dallek turns in a fresh and disturbing double portrait that includes such hilarious, pathetic images as the desperately insecure Nixon in a Shanghai hotel at 2 a.m., smashed on "mao-tais," begging his aides to reassure him that his China trip was a success...
Atget was said to be short-tempered and eccentric, and in his 50s stopped eating anything except bread, milk and sugar. He and his wife, Valentine, a former actress, hung out with some of Paris' leading dramatists - though he left behind not a single portrait of friends or associates. One photo in the show gives a tiny insight into the photographer's world: Small Interior of a Dramatic Artist, which is actually Atget's own tidy, book-lined apartment...
...exhibit has another revealing picture, the only one not printed or shot by Atget himself. It is a 1927 portrait of him, looking stooped and weary at age 70, by an American friend, Berenice Abbott. When she stopped by his flat a few months later to deliver it, he was dead. His passing went largely unmarked outside the circle of curators who had bought his albums and kept them interred, mostly unseen, in their archives. Atget would likely have been indifferent to such obscurity, given his preference for work over fame. "This enormous artistic and documentary collection is now finished...