Pablo's Priestess

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"I look at the world in exactly the opposite way that he did," says Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington, the resolutely serene writer and disciple of New Age spiritualism, of Pablo Picasso, the resolutely tormented subject of her latest book, Picasso: Creator and Destroyer (Simon and Schuster). Since marrying

Texas oil scion Michael Huffington, the Greek-born, Cambridge-educated Arianna has moved from New York to Washington to Houston to Santa Barbara, all the while transcending "the loathing and hatred" she sees in much of Picasso's life and work by meditating an hour every day— even during promotional tours.