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...Marino Marini is a tall, bland Milanese with mild brown eyes and a sculptor's muscular hands. Two years ago his works were little known outside of Italy; now, at 49, he is internationally admired. The exhibition of his works which opened in a Manhattan gallery last week was sure to shock some people and deeply move oth ers. It showed that he had earned his belated fame the hard way, with sculptures that were often downright unpleasant...
...balanced baseball. Some liked it almost as well as Englishman Henry Moore's pachydermic pinheads or German Joan Arp's egg-smooth abstractions. Others contended that it could not be compared with the high standards in postwar sculpture set in more conventional works by Milanese Artists Marino Marini (TIME, May 30) and Giacomo Manzu (TIME, July 18), who have been winning praise in both Britain and the U.S. but for lack of new work to exhibit were not represented in the Varese show...
...Marino Marini's entry was Cavaliere, a horse and rider that appeared to have just paused in the middle of a saddleless, bridleless journey. The horse, whose plump body and delicate, spindly legs were more Chinese than European, stood with its neck stretched straight out; the flowing horizontal from its muzzle to its tail was unbroken except by the rider, who looked both babyish and brave-lonely, puzzled and somehow heroic...
Lucius Beebe cast his eye back over the bloody year of 1942, recalled baked lobster Savannah, soft-shell crabs, roulade of sand crabs, jugged saddle of hare, monies marinières, rack of lamb, shrimp Creole, Strasbourg foie gras, Dom Perignon champagne, pompano belle meunière, venison steak grand veneur, shad roe bonne femme, terrapin stew, escallopini of veal, oysters Rockefeller, pheasant in casserole and eggs gashouse. . . . Concluded the Lucullan Lucius: "Betcha it won't be like this next year...
Giordano: Andrea Chenier (Chorus and orchestra of the La Scala Opera, Lorenzo Molajoli conducting, with Linda Bruna Rasa, Luigi Marini and other singers; Columbia: 2 volumes, 26 sides). Giordano's melodramatic, French-Revolutionary opera shows signs of coming back into U. S. favor. The present recording is rich in marinara sauce...