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Holes in One. Miniature golf, idiot's delight of the Depression years, is also coming back strong. In the 19303, Tom Thumb courses sprouted in everybody's vacant lot, set up for about $30 in cash, some scrap lumber and a can of paint. Today they tend to be elaborate and mass-produced, leased on a franchise basis...
...Knoedler & Co. form the biggest assembly of these fragile sketches since the 1907 memorial show in Paris, held a year after Cézanne died. They are priceless, rainbow-hued documents of his passionate, lifelong homage to nature, but Cézanne often treated them like so much scrap; he even lighted the stove in his Provençal studio with works that might now be worth as much as $16,000 each. Only the foresight of his friends and early admirers-Gertrude Stein. Monet, Degas, Renoir, Pissarro-saved those that are left...
...ingots, stamped with Cypro-Minoan signs. She also carried ingots of tin, probably from Syria, that have long since turned to white oxide. Packed in wicker baskets, are fragments of broken bronze tools, weapons and household utensils. Apparently the ship was a floating factory, turning copper, tin and bronze scrap into equipment for warriors, farmers and housewives of the Homeric...
...what the music was like; indeed, to one who has heard the music, describing it is redundant. Yet this least programmatic of music suggests images: less the constant motion of neon lights than the silences and quick thrusts of Karate, the openness and jaggedness of a sculpture of welded scrap...
...class warfare of musician and conductor is as old as ego. But to Szell, the whole scrap is an empty one. "We are all in the service of music," he says, "and we must approach it with all the good will possible." Because he is the most authoritarian man now conducting, this means play it his way, or else...