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DIED. Giorgio de Chirico, 90, Italian painter, whose early surrealist works helped define 20th century art; of a heart attack; in Rome...
...Once upon a time there was a piece of wood." So begins The Adventures of Pinocchio (Macmillan; $17.50 hardcover, $9.95 paperback), by C. Collodi, translated by Carol della Chiesa. But as this intriguing volume shows, the story has no true ending. The marionette whose nose grows with each lie is almost a century old, and Attilio Mussino's paintings were first printed in 1911. Yet this version -somewhat redesigned for modern consumption-is as ageless as all great fables. The paper clothes, the bread hat, the saintly carpenter Geppetto, the Cat and the Fox, the Azure Fairy are creations...
...common cry of curs, whose...
...reek o' th' rotten fens, whose...
...Theater is an antiseptic anteroom of an urban purgatory. A cubistic formation of white, black, lucite and chrome, the room suggests that a fashionable decorator has just made a hasty exit. The people E.L. Doctorow assembles here, in his first play, are upper-middle-class professionals and old friends whose blood count has been lowered by civilization...