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Character. The few non-Communist reporters who have met chain-smoking Liu, uneasily describe him as a "wan wraith in the shadows" who looks like an "underexposed snapshot." His family life is equally shadowy: his first wife "died" in 1945; his second is described as a "handsome" woman from Tientsin. One of his four sons was executed by the Kuomintang; a daughter went to school in Moscow and married a Spanish Communist. Sharp-tongued and humorless, Liu Shao-chi has flicked a raw spot on nearly everyone around him. When Premier Chou En-lai suggested in a speech that...
...never able to get used to it"), he uses a mannered but often effective device of 117 very short chapters, each concerned with a single episode, often a single glancing thought or aspiration. The reader, in effect, leafs through a verbal photograph album, ranging from an eleven-line snapshot of Mrs. Bridge finding her small son staring meditatively at the dressmaker's dummy of her figure (thereafter, she hides it in the attic) to a seven-page description of a country-club dinner that is as savagely tedious as anything in Babbitt. There are sharply accurate glimpses...
Riffling through his sharply focused snapshot memories of some 80 greats and near greats, M.G.M. comes down to the finish line with a recent interview with Paris' rocketing young Bernard Buffet, who in the last decade has shot from abject poverty to Rolls-Royce status. Such luck was rare in the old days, M.G.M. recalls. Looking back over the past, he says: "What they call la belle epoque was the most hostile and hardest time that ever existed. They are always talking of the good old days. But in those days painters were starving. Nowadays a painter with...
LONG before the camera made possible the snapshot in the wallet, a man who cared to. carry about the likeness of his wife or children had to commission an artist. The demand for such likenesses, to hang on watch fobs or dangle in gold lockets, fostered the exacting art of painting watercolor portraits on small circles and squares of ivory. The genteel custom flourished in New England in the mid-18th century, died out a century later. Last week, in conjunction with the Colonial Dames of Massachusetts, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts put on view a choice selection...
...although all circumstances seemed just right for attainment. The supple dialogue is loaded with surprise and revelation; everything that is said has shape and texture and reverberates with hidden meaning. There are self-contained moments of extraordinary power: Aladar's Christmas holiday with his family is a devastating snapshot of what life was for him without Lalla. Most memorable of all, perhaps, is the scene when a cured girl leaves the sanatorium while those left behind crowd the windows to cry over and over: "Don't go away...