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SENTENCED. NINA SIMONE, 62, singer; to a two-month suspended sentence and a $5,000 fine for causing and fleeing a 1993 auto accident that injured two young motorcyclists; in Aix-en-Provence, France...
With the gulf crisis adding to anxiety over gasoline prices, the little cars may become more attractive than ever. This year a dozen French VSP manufacturers expect to sell as many as 15,000 of them. Martial Howa of Aixam Automobiles, a manufacturer in the southeastern French town of Aix-les-Bains, estimates that the market will grow 40% in the next two years. "Soon it will not be mostly a French phenomenon," he says. "Already we're exporting 15% of the 5,000 units we produce each year to Germany, Belgium, Switzerland and Greece...
...idea of restoring the Roman empire three centuries later inspired Charlemagne to voyage to Rome in A.D. 800 and have himself crowned by the Pope. Both Germany and France claim the Frankish leader, for he governed from Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle), and the territory under his rule rather closely resembled what is today the European Community. Not long after his death, however, his empire was divided among three grandsons...
...grave humane fullness of his great model Rembrandt; the landscapes are like nothing anyone had painted before. No wonder the little asylum, with its worn flagstone corridors and pine-shadowed garden, remains one of the sacred sites of modernist culture. Here, as in Manet's Paris and Cezanne's Aix-en-Provence, art turned on its pivot in the 19th century to face the 20th. One does not see many exhibitions like this in a lifetime...
...Cote d'Azur, that strip of Provence that runs from Nice to Hyeres. If ever a littoral was changed from a place to an idea by the efforts of painters, this one was it. Paul Cezanne, a Provencal rooted in the limestone and red clay of his native Aix, had made backcountry Provence around Mont Ste.-Victoire one of the sacred loci of the modernist imagination. Among them, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Pierre Bonnard would do the same for the coast...