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Eugene Ionesco, the noted French playwright and author, addressed an overflow-crowd last night in the Hilles Cinema at a rare public screening of his only film, "La Vase...
...Vase" ("The Quicksand") was produced in 1971, and features Ionesco as both scriptwriter and its only leading actor...
...everyone will be so lucky as the Massachusetts schoolteacher who picked up a primitive watercolor for 35¢ at a church auction and sold it 35 years later for $22,000. Or the Philadelphia couple who 30 years ago bought a Ming vase for $400 and sold it for $260,000. But an increasing number of people are finding that collecting antiques (art, furniture and objects at least 100 years old) can be enormously rewarding, both aesthetically and financially...
...floral offerings laid at the altars. Sofu has made it a highly secular art and brought it into the age of abstract expressionism. His Grass Moon school has gone beyond the simple (but stunning) classical ikebana arrangements of a bent twig and a dewy blossom arrayed in a water vase or a bamboo tube. In containers that may be ceramic sculptures or Chinese wine kegs, Sofu will blend the blooms with shells, stones, iron, leaves, driftwood, dried grass, dead flowers or dyed feathers. Explaining his break with tradition, he once proclaimed: "We should always look forward to a fresh...
...compartment, a tastefully decorated section furnished with swivel chairs, two soft corner couches, a TV set and an electronics board that flashed the altitude, speed, time and weather. On the walls were satellite photographs of Egypt, including one of the Sinai Peninsula. On the desk was a vase of yellow flowers...