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Battering Ram. Having beautified old Bargème, la Patronne became worried about property development around it. To prevent real estate sharks from cashing in on the town's new attractiveness, she persuaded André Malraux's Culture Ministry in Paris to classify the town as a historical site, thus forbidding new structures on lots of less than 2½ acres. The decree hit Bargème like a battering ram: many villagers, it turned out, had hoped to parcel off their own land at premium prices to wealthy Parisian weekenders. Led by fighting-mad Mayor Isnard...
...enacted, so to speak, the first chapters of Genesis. At first, he covered his canvas with spots, drips and washes. Then from this primordial chaos, he created an ordered series of lines, and sketched in sun-and moonlike heads to represent the first two primal people. Poet André Breton, spiritual spokesman for surrealism, once called Miró "the most surrealist of us all." It is a title that he himself feels he has outgrown. "I am a free man, I hate labels," he protests. "I am not a cyclist with a number on my back...
...modern art, Pompidou as Premier yanked down the fusty old portraits of Richelieu, Colbert and other ancient statesmen and filled his office walls with splashy Soulages, Ernsts and Buffets. Later, he replaced the sculptured nymphs in the garden of his offices with a modern sculpture that Culture Minister André Malreaux had recommended as "unknown but remarkable...
...prologue before the credits. The son of a Parisian architect, he had a history of juvenile delinquency and truancy that ended in a short reformatory stretch-an experience that was to become the basis for his first film. As an adolescent film fanatic, he came to the attention of André Bazin, dean of French movie critics, who took Truffaut into his personal custody when, at the age of 18, the youth was discharged from the army as an "unstable personality...
THIRD ANNUAL FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL, Daytona Beach, Fla., features the London Symphony, directed by André Previn and guests, starting July 18. A "real blockbuster" is promised for the final concert on Aug. 11, when the orchestra will number 200 players to do justice to Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture...