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...years" but instead moved to Philadelphia. He never forgave New York. Later, in the midst of a dry spell in 1950, he prophesied: "I will dry up your rivers and I will dry up your streams. This water shortage in New York City has been just a slight sketch and reflection of what I will do!" He lived to see his words come true with the drought...
...horses, and has an apple orchard that produces in commercial quantity. The ranch is really an avocation ("Luckily, it's not my livelihood"), and Peter at times starts out to ride the range with his foreman and fails to get where he is heading because he stops to sketch scenes that particularly catch his eye. During the sittings for the cover painting (the background shows Shuman's farm in Illinois), artist and subject found a lot of farm topics to talk about and quite a bit to agree on. One point of agreement is suggested by the fact...
...Minister of Culture André Malraux predicted: "When in a million years men stop by at this place, they will surely say, 'Something undoubtedly happened here which had to do with the spirit.'" Maeght hopes to make Malraux's prophecy come true. "From the very first sketch drawn, from the first stone laid," he says, "what came before all else was the spiritual climate to be created, not something dead where relics are kept, but a center of intellectual life away from the trite problems of daily living...
...Dine's sketch of six toothbrushes, with squiggles of shocking pink added (for clarity's sake, the pink is labeled "toothpaste...
...suppose Schwartz means seriously the sketch that followed. It concerned an abortive reading of Hamlet, directed by Isabel's alcholic lover, Alex, who is the brother of Isabel's former lover--who died of an overdose of heroin. Alex reads Claudius, Isabel Gertrude. Hamlet is appropriately performed by Absolom, an idiot-child orphan the other two have inexplicably accumulated some five minutes before the scene opens...