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...moreover, immovably eccentric: a gray whisper of a man who lived for 54 years with his crippled brother in a house on Utopia Parkway in Queens, N.Y.- an exile more singular than any expatriation to Tahiti. Cornell loved the idea of Europe but never went there. The house was crammed with cartons, dossiers, packets of old photos, clippings, hoarded books, gewgaws and boxes; these constituted the world in which he traveled. His only public gestures were occasional exhibitions and cover designs for the ballet magazine Dance Index. Self-promotion was unthinkable to him. Cornell always seemed an emissary from...
Many of the poems are written in the first person, singular or plural. Yet instead of becoming familiar with this voice--whose pattern of speech changes from poem to poem--the reader becomes aware of the themes that "I" or "we" favors: themes like the sea, a woman's sexuality, a sort of science-fictionalized view of the world, the family history and tawdry yet mysterious American middle- or working-class culture. These themes hold small clumps of otherwise disparate poems together while Sagan is trying out styles of writing. They provide, at least, a way of fitting her work...
This is not a "masterpiece" show, but it does accord with Spanish reality in the 17th century and is required seeing for anyone interested in that singular efflorescence...
...Brandeis quintet had gone into its swan song and had yet to emerge from the profound torpor. In a singular exhibition of botched marksmanship, the Judges repeatedly rent the oxygen with reckless abandon from any and all points on the floor, as their shooting percentage rivalled the life expenctancy of starved fruit flies...
...could easily present Still as a caricature by Ayn Rand, a bombinating superman nourishing himself on rocks and vinegar. But what is the point? The paintings remain: they are enveloping in scale, impressively consistent in their growth, utterly free of triviality, the products of a singular talent whose dimension will not be fully known in his own lifetime...