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Debbie Harry's performance is an analogue for the psychological violence of the cold war days, all pouty and conformist. She invests her love in new shoes and a blonde bleach job. The soundtrack is credited to Chris Stein, the other Blondie personage, but his electronic accompaniment resembles a melodramatic mix of Robert Fripp and Bernard Herrmann, not the band's dance beat...
...have no choice but to be Americans now," says Raphael Bellefleur, descendant of French aristocrats and now the owner of a baronial estate in the New World. But what is an American? The question has provoked writers as diverse as Henry James and Gertrude Stein, and it haunts Joyce Carol Oates throughout this vast seven-generation epic. That is not all that haunts her. Oates' twelfth novel informs the occult with Freudian insights. Boys change into hounds, men into bears; a man, swallowed by a great flood, returns decades later to be recognized only by his 100-year...
...names Whiteside calls people are intermingled with the "names" who call. "Gertrude Stein" phones from Paris. "Admiral Byrd" sends along some penguins from the South Pole, and "William Beebe" an octopus. Swift visits are paid by "Harpo Marx," played by Leonard Frey, and "Gertrude Lawrence" - a performance by Carrie Nye that rates 10 on a Richter scale for actressy amorous bitchiness...
Stieglitz arranged to send Hartley abroad in 1912. With such sponsorship, Hartley found himself welcomed into the Parisian salon of Gertrude Stein and its animated talk of abstraction, of analytical cubism, of form vs, content. Soon Hartley was painting variants of Picasso, Braque, Delaunay, Cezanne and most of all of Kandinsky. He called his new style "subliminal or cosmic cubism...
...Stein & Day; 249 pages...