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BORN: Oct. 16, 1936, Grand Rapids EDUCATION: Grand Rapids Community College, A.A., 1955; Calvin College, A.B., 1956; U of Michigan, M.A., 1977; U of Michigan, Ed. Spec., 1987; Western Michigan U, spada, 1992 FAMILY: Divorced; two children RELIGION: Congregationalist MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Teacher POLITICAL CAREER: Democratic nominee for Michigan Senate, 1978; Democratic nominee for U.S. House, 1994 ADDRESS: 2759 West Leonard Street, Grand Rapids...
...James Spada...
...secret that Celebrity Chronicler James Spada has dug up is that Philadelphia-proper, convent-educated Grace Kelly had sex before marriage, apparently a lot. While putting her affairs in order, Spada in this sad, breathless biography writes endlessly about the "duality" of Kelly's personality (fire vs. ice, expression vs. repression), all in a turgid stream of psychobabble. People who want to find out if Grace Kelly was a sensuous woman need only see To Catch a Thief. They will satisfy their curiosity, and Grace will be allowed to rest in peace...
...Representation of Space" has some painstaking reconstructions of spatial illusion in Renaissance and baroque art; its best moment (which will be the envy of all red-blooded interior decorators) is a full-size wooden replica of Borromini's false-perspective colonnade, made in the 17th century for the Palazzo Spada in Rome. The second exhibition, "Wunderkammer," is a delight. Wunderkammern--literally, chambers of astonishment--were an embellishment of European collections from the 16th century onward. They were anthologies of real and artificial oddities, things astonishing by their exoticism or the intricacy of their making--or outright fakes, like a dead...
West's neatest trick, though, is reserved for the end. One of the things that Spada demands, as the price for not poisoning mankind, is permission to address the General Assembly of the United Nations. In real life, of course, he could do so and no one would notice, but West ignores this for the sake of his artifice. The resulting episode is thus one of the neatest bits of whimsical invention since A.A. Milne created the heffalump...