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...unpredictable, with scarcely a cushion between the two. Miro's ''internationalism'' was largely the result of fame and an art-distribution system that became pan-European and then, after World War II, transatlantic. But the real stem of his imagination was intensely provincial, rooted in the Catalan compost; it was shaped, it is true, by the influence of Cubism and then by his immersion in the Surrealist avant-garde during the '20s, but drew its tenacious fantasy from sources as deep as those of his great Catalan predecessor, the architect Antoni Gaudi. Miro's work is Catalan and French -- rather...
...Planet Green's most promoted--and most vapid--shows is Grenier's Alter Eco, in which the HBO star and several fashion-plate friends bring eco-consciousness to the deprived world of upscale Los Angelenos. They visit organic restaurants and sip biodynamic cabernet sauvignons. They build a home compost bin for a chef from Spago and work on a "green" mansion large enough to dry-dock an aircraft carrier. And they cap off each episode by sitting down to cocktails or dinner and telling one another how awesome they are. ("Why are you such a mensch?" Grenier asks...
...title is a twist on the word ego, because the show is a perfect marriage of sanctimony and self-regard. It's ecotistical. It's compostentatious. Grenier and company mean it to be aspirational--it's cool to be green!--but the effect is exactly the opposite. Hey, I compost and recycle too, I think as I watch. Do I look like that big a tool...
...time, General Motors heir Stewart Mott drove a Volkswagen. A self-described "avant-garde philanthropist," Mott lived briefly on a Chinese junk, publicized his sexual conquests and cultivated a farm--replete with compost pile and chicken coop--atop his Manhattan penthouse. Yet these eccentricities didn't obscure his lavish contributions to a range of progressive causes, including abortion rights, arms control and the presidential bids of Senators Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern...
...DELIVERY The finished compost is sent to nearby farms to be used as an alternative to chemical fertilizer