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Equally important, I now have a somewhat different view of how these texts should be edited. In the first edition, my main focus was on highlighting Matisse’s own words. As a result, I often cut digressive remarks made by his various interviewers. I am now more sensitive to the historiographical value of those interviews and have included more of this interesting material. - Jack Flam, Matisse On Art |
When old friends who finally, actually read your web site after all this time email to tell you they never knew:
a few weeks ago we went to the four seasons for mies' 115th birthday (it's a cult), which is in the seagram building (mies mies mies), where we drank martinis and were told by the maitre d' of a time when seven ladies who lunch came to.... lunch and asked him to reccommend a good bottle of wine. which he did, though it was a seven hundred dollar bottle of wine (new york, four seasons). (i know you're going to ask me what wine it was but sadly that was not part of the story, so you'll just have to invent it.) naturally they ordered one, liked it so much that they ordered another. the lunch dragged on, got louder, they ended up ordering seven bottles of this rather expensive wine. after a bit the maitre d' went down to check on them and discovered the whole group had stripped down to their la perlas and wanted to go for a dip in the fountain. being a reasonable man, he said "what the heck" and swimming they went. when they emerged, there stood the waitstaff holding fresh dry table cloths.
