Word: upping
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Clearly, the best of these writers and illustrators apprehend the power of Ingmar Bergman's insight: "All of us collect fortunes when we are children -a fortune of colors, of lights and darkness, of movements, of tensions. Some of us have the fantastic chance to go back to his...
Even the masterpieces are constantly swamped by competitors with pretentious texts or gaudy illustrations aimed to snag an adult's wallet, not a child's mind. For success breeds venality, and many a pub lisher acts on the principle that the small change in piggy banks is just...
Most of his drawings are in the possession of the Rosenbach Foundation in Philadelphia; the few that come up for sale fetch prices of up to $12,000 each. For a man who describes himself as "a solitary and an agonizingly slow worker," Sendak has had an uncharacteristically gregarious year...
Maurice Sendak derives much of his creativity from two early sources, a photograph of his bearded patriarchal grandfather ("I thought he was the image of God") and Mickey Mouse. "Mickey was born the same year I was," says the artist, who has the beard of a prophet and the astonished...
The summer after she graduated as the "Most Athletic Girl" at a suburban Baltimore high school, she broke her neck in a 1967 diving accident. "Somebody has to bathe me and brush my hair and feed me," she says. "In a sense, success for me is just getting up in...