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What the premiere audience saw first was Dancer Francisco Moncion resting on a practice-room floor. He began to stretch and ripple his muscles, then caught sight of himself in an imaginary mirror and went into a self-admiring performance. Ballerina Tanaquil LeClercq entered, joined in the mirror work. Eventually Faun Moncion turned and kissed Nymph LeClercq on the cheek. As if jolted by seeing each other as real people rather than mirror images, faun and nymph broke apart. She glided away, and he lay down for another rest as the curtain fell...
...senselessly onto canvas and those who are interested only in the verb 'to see.'" His own paintings, he insists, are not mere designs, but explorations of the verb "to be," i.e., they have to do with human existence. "I represent man," he says, "not as in a mirror, but as a force constantly changing. Man is 50% irrational. One half has been measured by mathematics; the other can be reached only through poetry...
...shrewd business sense pushed the paper's circulation to nearly 300,000. But in Los Angeles, where the News is the only pro-Democratic paper among the city's five dailies, the paper did not keep up with the competition, especially that of the breezy, afternoon tabloid Mirror, started in 1948 by Los Angeles Times Publisher Norman Chandler (TIME, Aug. 16, 1948). While the Mirror grew (to 212,903), the News slipped to under 200,000. Publisher Boddy, now 61, gradually wearied of the fight and his editorial chores, finally turned the paper over to Smith. He slashed...
...Bronx-born, began improvising at the piano when he was ten, and once thought of a performer's career. But he was supporting himself as a music critic and ghostwriter by the time he was 20. In the early '30s, he covered modernist concerts for the tabloid Mirror while the more austere dailies were filling their columns with Rachmaninoff. Except for spells of teaching (at Mills and Brooklyn Colleges) and study (with Darius Milhaud and Nadia Boulanger), he has been at it ever since, is now the Herald Trib's most influential critic next to Critic-Composer...
Before Antonello, the great Italian painters had worked with tempera, i.e., opaque water color. Mixed with egg white and applied to mirror-smooth panels with the points of tiny brushes, tempera has a brilliance and precision that oils can never match. But oils are far more fluent. They can be laid atop one another in transparent glazes to produce a glowing vibrancy akin to that of colors in nature. They can be blurred into shadow, and they can be broadly, loosely, quickly or gently brushed, in imitation of the flooding sparkle of light itself. Antonello preached this technique by example...