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...suggested in the following portfolio of intimate photos by David Douglas Duncan, Picasso remained Picasso: an indefatigable worker, a lover of mischief and pranks, quirky, increasingly aloof, mercurial, yet often remarkably generous and warm. In Viva Picasso, a book to be published by Viking next fall, Duncan describes how, in the course of preparing some Picasso canvases for photography, he took a swipe with a feather duster at a 1938 self-portrait-and smudged a part of the canvas. Writes Duncan: "I spent the whole morning dabbing with spit-moistened Kleenex trying to reduce the damage, to clean away...
...military courts. "I am a prisoner of war," screamed Carlos Alberto Torres, 27, who had been on the FBI's Most Wanted list since 1977. Impassively, Judge Kelly ordered the defendants held for arraignment this week. As Torres was hauled off to Cook County Jail, he shouted: "?Viva Puerto Rico libre!" Outside the building about 50 supporters waved red flags and chanted: "Drive the Yankees to the sea; Puerto Rico will be free...
...guest has spilled some coffee on the table, and quicker than you can say Oops! the little woman in trousers and a rakish jockey cap has mopped up the mess. "There, that's fine," she says, looking down in satisfaction. "Viva towels are so much better than Bounty." Then, listening to herself, she laughs, hoots, cacklesthere are no mere giggles from this lady. "I sound like a television commercial...
Teitelbaum, who has performed with Anthony Braxton as well as with his own electronic group, Musica Elettronica Viva, contributes lean, sensitive synthesizer work that is quite compatible with the suite's carefully structured textures and its theme of relentless exploration and discovery. Jenkins likes the futuristic associations of his oblique song title, and also "the poetic aspect, the way it can be said. 'Space Minds, New Worlds Survival of America.' It has a certain rhythm...
...sign that read I LOVE YOU, JOHN PAUL II. Why did she and her family pick this spot? "Because he'll have to slow down to turn the corner." One sign stood out even more than the big WITAM, JAN PAWEL II placard above LaSalle's bar. VIVA EL PAPA it read. And in small letters below LOS CUBANOS. "I am from Miami Beach," the old woman said who held it. "I am Cuban." She was Noemi Sarmenteros, 75 years old, and she lived with her son in Florida. But she had made the trip...