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...could get to downtown Helsinki, they fled from the welcome-to-Finland ceremonies as fast as decency permitted. And sure enough, when Thelonious Monk shambled out on the stage of the Kulttuuritalo that night to the spirited applause of 2,500 young Finns, there on his head was a splendid creation in fake lamb's-wool...
...Curse in Four Beats. In the gossipy world of jazz, Monk is also less discussed than many others. Occasionally he will say some splendid thing and the story will make the rounds, but there are personalities more actively bizarre than Monk's around. Rollins is a Rosicrucian who contemplates the East River, letting his telephone ring in his ear for hours while he studies birds from his window. Mingus is so obsessed with goblins from the white world that person to person he is as perverse as a roulette wheel; his analyst wrote the notes for his last record jacket...
...society center of Germany. The gaggle of local princelings includes Habsburgs and Hohenzollerns, lesser-known Hatzfeldts and Croys, but the dominant family is the Wittelsbachs, who ruled Bavaria from 1180 to 1918, when Kurt Eisner's revolution threw them out. The Wittelsbachs still live in the splendid Nymphenburg Castle- Munich's Versailles-and their shadow court dominates the city's social life. At the Aristocrats' Ball, held earlier this month in the Vier Jahreszeiten Hotel, only those patricians with at least 32 titled ancestors were admitted. But for all their blueblood, Munich's aristocrats...
...Leopoldstrasse. There are plenty of alternative diversions. Munich's many art galleries include the famed Alte Pinakothek, with its splendid collections of DÜrer, Rembrandt, Raphael, Titian and Rubens. Munich claims to be the birthplace of modern art, and indeed its Blaue Reiter group pioneered in the abstract movement; Munich's galleries today are loaded with the works of Kandinsky and Klee. Schwabing, the city's bohemian quarter, which won its reputation thanks to Kandinsky & Co., is still an art center, with more than 2,000 painters and sculptors at work...
...will be at the Harvard Square for one more day. If you haven't seen it yet, by all means, do; this is one movie you shouldn't miss. And do not get there late; the first scene is not only a splendid mood-setter, but also a miniature masterpiece...