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...Baconian imagery is famous. Its most familiar component is the screaming Pope, smearily rising from blackness like carnivorous ectoplasm, his throne indicated by a pair of gold finials, the whole enclosed in a sketchy cage -- homage to an original that Bacon firmly denies having ever seen, the Velasquez portrait of Innocent X in the Doria collection in Rome. There are the Crucifixion motifs, reflections of Grunewald and the Cimabue Crucifixion in Santa Croce that was partly destroyed by the 1966 Florence flood, whose sinuous and near boneless body Bacon once startlingly compared to "a worm crawling down the Cross." There...
Miss Morrow, however, is different. In Jane and Prudence, she is a masterly drawn comic portrait: a coolly calculating woman who hides her ambition behind the lowered lids of humble gentility. In this book she seems the same at first, a wan little mouse who acquires sexual power when she puts on a blue velvet dress. But this Miss Morrow is gentle and vulnerable, a creature whose only asset is her sense of decency. Jane and Prudence shows a novelist in complete command, but the rare charm of Crampton Hodnet is in the glimpse it offers of Pym's imagination...
DIED. Robert Nathan, 91, author of more than 50 volumes of romantic poetry and wry, whimsical prose, including the novels The Bishop's Wife (1928) and Portrait of Jennie (1940), both of which were later made into successful films; of kidney failure; in Los Angeles...
...President Ronald Reagan and Vice President George Bush released their 1984 gift lists last week. The 15 gifts for the Gipper, valued at $7,156, included the First Puppy, Lucky (valued at $400), a .44 Magnum revolver inscribed with Reagan's name ($263), four hearing aids ($3,000), a portrait of an American Indian by a favorite California artist, and a chain saw and accessories ($238) that were a Christmas present from the Secret Service. Bush listed among his 41 items (worth $8,989) 26 pairs of running shoes (most of which he gave away), a Steuben glass elephant...
...teen alcoholics. One of every five freshmen at the University of Minnesota admits to being a heavy drinker, which is twice the rate found in 1975. A survey of 1,200 students in fraternities and sororities on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign sketched a portrait of young people heavily dependent on booze to handle stress. More than half said they drink when angry or upset, three-quarters said they drink to get drunk, and 42% admitted they have trouble putting down the bottle once they start. Almost 30% had at least one accident or injury...