Capucine was fifty-seven years old when she killed herself by jumping from a ninth-floor window. First she was born, then she grew up, and after modeling in Paris she began acting in Hollywood movies

  About a month ago, at the Museum of Modern Art, I attended a performance of John Cage’s 4'33". I’d read about its famous silence, but because I’d never sat in a theater and experienced that silence, all I had were expectations. I expecte…