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Billy was the darling of the denizens of the crash pad at Provo House, a tarnished brick relic of bygone opulence hard by Denver's Capitol Hill area. Provo House, named for a group of Dutch student rowdies by a Californian who calls himself "The Strider," proffered free mattresses and sometimes free food to hippie drifters, dropouts and runaways. The flower children lavished their love on Billy, making sure that the cheerful blond two-year-old always got a generous portion of their meager meals. Only when forced to take a bath would Billy blow his cool...
Light Lunch. From Pnompenh, the Kennedy party flew on to Angkor-a mysterious, romantic relic of the great Khmer civilization that vanished in war and bloodshed some time in the 15th century. Besides barring newsmen for most of the stay, the Cambodian hosts set up a "picnic lunch" (five dishes and two wines) for the tourists under tall hardwood trees, charmed them with the soft sounds of tiny gongs, cymbals and bamboo flutes. "Magnificent, magnificent," was Jackie's description of the ruins...
...Scala's novelty for this tour was Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi, a bel canto relic that the company recently revived after a century of relative neglect. A retelling of the Romeo and Juliet story that owes little to Shakespeare, Capuleti, with Bellini's intimate scale, pervading sweetness and utter predictability, is a distinct contrast to Verdi's powerful, primitive themes and vaulting imagination. But the company -notably the two leads, Tenor Giacomo Aragall and Soprano Renata Scotto-traded the flawed gusto of its Trovatore and Nabucco performances for restraint and quiet artistry, making...
Isaac Bashevis Singer is a most curious relic. He pecks away at his 22-year-old Yiddish typewriter, writing of dubious demons and Polish shtetls (Jewish villages) that disappeared before he was born. Is he, at 63, the greatest living 19th century novelist-author of titles as blatantly old-fashioned as The Family Moskat? Is he a Jewish Hawthorne? No labels quite cling to a writer who was too long regarded as just a quaint retailer of legends...
...came after behaved like delighted, bright-eyed children let loose in a supermarket. They too liked their objects big. Andy Warhol enlarged a Campbell soup can and made it an object of veneration; Tom Wesselman celebrated bathrooms and kitchens; Robert Rauschenberg painted his own bed, made a sacred relic out of a stuffed goat with a tire round his middle and walked off with first honors at the 1964 Venice Biennale. Onetime Sign Painter James Rosenquist composed his images of the modern U.S.A. -from hair dryers to atomic bombs-on a canvas titled F-lll, which measures 13 ft. longer...