Review of a new book on Isadora Duncan in The Observer.<P> <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>'Isadora Duncan is the greatest woman I have ever known,' Auguste Rodin declared. 'Sometimes I think she is the greatest woman the world has ever known.' Artists, writers and otherwise perfectly sane people have shared his enthusiasm. Yet anyone who has seen a grossly self-indulgent performer persist beyond her (or his) prime would be more inclined to trust George Balanchine's youthful memory of Duncan as a 'drunk fat woman who for hours was rolling around like a pig'.<P><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P><A HREF="http://www.observer.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,639897,00.html" TARGET=_blank> <B> MORE </B> </A>