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Contents: Cosinday in China (When the noted color portraitist went to China, she used her cameras as a diary. Published for the first time, excerpts from Marie Cosindas’ diary document the photographer’s appreciations of the most populous nation on earth.), In Search of Nixon (Biographer Fawn Brodie offended her own family with a book about Mormon leader Joseph Smith and outraged Thomas Jefferson partisans with an expose of the third president’s affair with a slave mistress. Just before her recent death she completed a story “unlike anything else in American history”; the rise and fall of Richard Nixon.), Steel and Elastic (Anna Pavlova died fifty years ago. More than any other person, she spread dance to the corners of the world.), Margot Fonteyn on Paviova (One great ballerina remembers another.), Mamet in Hollywood (“Call Jerry in Aspen and let’s get this thing to work.” But that’s not the way playwright David Mamat was treated when he found himself writing the screenplay for The Postman Always Rings Twice.), The Infinite Variety of Jane Seymour (“She eats light,” says her producer in the television series “East of Eden.” And she’s bruised all over from playing Mozart’s wife in Armadeus. Jane Seymour, talented, beautiful and indefatigable has arrived in America.), Twenty Museums You’ve Never Heard Of (Our second installment in a four-part series uncovers five “sleepers” in the Southeast.)
Issue: February 1981
Condition: Very Good