Word: andre
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...French, a hero must have not only courage but also savoir-faire. A 45-year-old mine foreman named André Martinet last week showed plenty of both...
Hammer Blow. Chagall designed the menu for the opening banquet; Miró designed scarves and handed them out to the ladies. Maeght's granddaughters presented the keys to the museum-the first public foundation of its kind in France-to Culture Minister André Malraux on a red satin cushion...
Surprises Under the Grime. It took more than water. It took a long-ignored Second Empire decree signed by Napoleon III in 1852 requiring facades to be washed every ten years, and impassioned pressure from Minister of Culture André Malraux. In practice, the government rarely has to fine building owners, for landlords can ease the cost of cleaning by borrowing as much as 40% of the tab. Face-washing a private apartment house costs about $2,000. To clean the 18th century building in the Place de la Concorde that houses the Morgan Bank,* the Automobile Club of France...
...with landscapes and figures in dark-bright colors and voluptuous lines that depict the rituals of Haitian life and evoke the mystery, romance and anguish of the enchanting little Creole country. Thirty works by 27 of Haiti's leading primitive painters, including Philome and Senéque Obin, André Pierre, Pauleus Vital, Hector Hyppolite. Through...
...tapestried walls of his stuffy official residence. He has edited a first-rate anthology of French poetry, containing long excerpts from his favorites, Apollinaire and Baudelaire. With his blonde wife Claude, he seems most at home with such literary and show business types as André Malraux, Françoise Sagan, Bernard Buffet, Jeanne Moreau and, more recently, that long-legged U.S. newcomer, Jane Fonda. Summers, the Pompidous spend at St. Tropez with the bikini...