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...dinner before the museum opening, Director of Collections Alfred Barr tapped his wine glass for attention, rose to reminisce: "I think I first heard the name of Bob Motherwell back in the 1940's from the surrealists, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, André Breton. And to hear them describe him, he was then like some young Lochinvar come out of the west." Last week Robert Motherwell went back in triumph to Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art to receive its greatest accolade: a one-man show, with 87 canvases, collages and drawings, including two outsize abstract canvases never...
...Giscard D'Estaing admitted: "The ice floe on reform has at last broken. People are now ready to talk business." Perhaps it was symbolic that, in their off-hours Fowler and Federal Reserve Chairman William McChesney Martin played a brisk match of tennis against Giscard and his deputy, André de Lattre. Score: 6-3, 6-3, for the Americans...
...glassworker at some stages had the equivalent of a 100-lb. weight at the end of his long metal blowpipe. Le Corbusier's amber Bucrane went through 26 failures, costing about 3,000,000 lire ($5,000) in workers' wages and shattered glass. As for André Verdet's Red Character, Costantini spent three years simply studying the project...
...mission that held the most fascination was French Minister of Cultural Affairs André Malraux's visit to Red China. At week's end it was not certain just what, if anything, had transpired, but it was at least a top-level visit. Malraux represented Charles de Gaulle and he did speak with Mao Tse-tung (see THE WORLD...
...broods a character in André Malraux's Man's Fate, undoubtedly reflecting the author's own vision in the 1920s when he spent two years in Canton as propaganda commissar for the Kuomintang, which was then an alliance that included the Communists. Last week, for the first time in 40 years, Malraux was back in China as guest of the Red leaders who achieved the revolution Malraux worked for as a young man. Too individualistic ever to join the party, Malraux's own disillusion with Communism came with the Nazi-Soviet pact...