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Today his style is still pure, and his commitment to ballet as strong. But his life has fleshed out. For one thing, he has embraced America with gusto. Now he runs his own company, American Ballet Theater. He speaks bravura English, full of vivid slang and the silly puns that Russians seem to love. "Let's see, how American am I?" he asks. "Well, I'm not a Yankee fan or a Forty-Niner, and I don't like Coca-Cola or pink shirts. But I love television, fast cars and corn. That's pretty American...
...others who claimed to have known Pedro talked to the police and to the press, a vivid picture began to emerge of the strange, solitary life of the man who may have been Mengele. Ernesto Glawe, an Argentine-born engineer with a German father, described in a deposition how he had been drawn into the expatriate circles of Gerhard and the Bosserts. Only one year after that initial meeting, said Glawe, Gerhard asked him if he would help an old Austrian friend. Somewhat taken aback at this request, Glawe eventually acquiesced and began paying monthly visits to the aging Pedro...
...work of younger American artists remains abstract, whether "decorative" (Alan Shields, Valerie Jaudon or the exuberant Judy Pfaff, whose manic, space-consuming constructions are hybrids of painting and sculpture) or more ostensibly rigorous in its aims, like that of Gary Stephan, 42. His paintings are like massive and vivid reflections on late cubism, especially the utopian "cubifying" abstraction of the 1920s, as practiced by such artists as Moholy-Nagy, Lissitzky and Prampolini. They have the visionary character of ideal forms -- ovals, cones, circles, cubes -- moving in deep space, its depth contradicted by puzzling abutment and reflections that block the view...
...undisputed heroes of John Irving's sixth novel. This homage seems both fitting and inevitable. The phenomenal success of The World According to Garp (1978) vindicated Irving's belief that what Dickens knew in the 19th century still holds true: a serious novel with an irresistible plot and vivid characters will not go begging for readers. The Hotel New Hampshire (1981), though lighter and frothier than Garp in most respects, offered a gallery of Dickensian eccentrics. But the author of such novels as Oliver Twist and Hard Times had more than entertainment on his mind; he used his fiction...
...intensity and impact of Dubuffet's career were all the more vivid for its late start. Born in Le Havre in 1901, he followed his father's trade as a wine merchant and (apart from one desultory spell as an art student in his teens, and another in the 1930s) did not commit himself to painting until after his 41st birthday. Yet by the end of the war, and especially by 1947 -- when he exhibited his riotously funny and touching series of portraits of French intellectuals and writers -- Dubuffet's work was not only an object of public scandal...