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SONGS OF NED ROREM (Columbia) sung by Regina Sarfaty, Phyllis Curtin and others. Since the death of Poulenc, Indiana-born, 40-year-old Ned Rorem is probably the world's best composer of art songs. Here he puts to music the slithering of Theodore Roethke's Snake, the slow flow of Paul Goodman's The Lordly...
GRAHAM SUTHERLAND-Rosenberg, 20 East 79th. There is nothing pastoral about Sutherland's nature: a praying mantis peers from a wicked void of scarlet, a skull dangles in a tapestry of leaves and blue sky, a snake sneaks up to a formal fountain, a torso flails agains: gravity. In his own words, Britain's topflight painter makes "emotional paraphrases of reality." They have never been more horrible or beautiful. Twenty-five recent oils. Through June...
Tanz turned to face him, looking as craggy and inaccessible as he had ever done. 'How dare you lay hands on me?' he asked softly, his eyes as cold as a snake...
Edith outlived her husband and died in 1961. In all that time, she had very little to say about her role in the White House and she refused all interviews. Nor did she mellow toward her enemies. At 85, she still referred to Henry Cabot Lodge as "that stinking snake...
...Klee effectively span his career. "Runner at the Goal" (1921) and "Red Baloon" (1922) are the whimsical and delightful products of the early Klee, who was experimenting with color and geometric form. "The Revolution of the Viaduct" (1937)--one of the highpoints of the show--and "Severing of the Snake" (1938), are as cleverly executed but contain overtones of the seriousness which pervaded his work in the trying years before his death...