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...book, the man with these radical ideas emerges as a charming, courtly Frenchman who proved singularly attractive to women. One major figure in the Lukases' story is Lucile Swan, a well-to-do American sculptress separated from her husband. She talked long hours in Peking with the priest and eventually became embittered at his total commitment to celibacy. Teilhard could willingly suffer the privations of expeditions into the northwestern wastes of China. But he seemed more at home attending salon gatherings with personalities ranging from Biologist Julian Huxley to Actress Linda Darnell...
...this ever-less meaningful relationship be saved? Bill Bumpers, a fledgling marriage counselor and self-described "victim of an intact home," tries his best. He advises Hattie and Ma to humor Heck in his plan to set up a ménage à trois with a local sculptress. Hattie promises her husband that Ma will not interfere: "She knows four's a crowd." But the crowd at Pretty Pass (as Heck now calls his farm) keeps growing; no sooner is someone hired to do the actual work around the place than he is seduced by the "crackle of civilized...
...phrases that seem to imply that the Times speaks with a purely masculine voice, viewing men as the norm," writers and editors are warned not to use "designations that are obviously disparaging." Examples: doll, weaker sex, the little woman and, in certain contexts, words like housewife, divorcee and sculptress. Gay, says the Times without explanation, is not to be used as a synonym for homosexual...
...exulted Photographer Richard Avedon of his exhibition at Manhattan's Marlborough Gallery. Avedon, 52, who helped revolutionize fashion photography by focusing beyond cosmetic beauty on the human side of his models, has put over 100 portraits on view, and prints of 75 on sale. Like that of Sculptress June Leaf, 46, most photographs show an unsmiling subject, slightly off center, standing before a plain white backdrop. "June is one of the most beautiful women I've ever photographed," said Avedon of Leaf. "What came forward was not the fact that she has a beautiful face, which...
...small mountain cabin which, it turns out, has already been destroyed by a natural disaster. This piece of information is relayed by an ursine eccentric named Thomas (Philippe Noiret) who encounters David in the middle of his trek. Thomas offers David shelter, food and his wife, a pert sculptress named Julia (Marlene Jobert)- although he reserves the right to act wounded when his guest takes him up on all three. Thomas and Julia are enchanted with David's brooding tales of terror, and they are persuaded of his veracity when grim-looking fellows with guns start hanging around...