Word: andre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MAGRITTE by René Passeron. 93 pages. J. Philip O'Hara. $15. "Only the marvelous is beautiful," Poet André Breton once wrote, and René Magritte's paintings make that point. Since most of the excellent reproductions in this book cover entire pages without frames of white space, the reader is thrust into the Belgian surrealist's enigmatic world. An immense rock floats in the sky, a bottle becomes a carrot, a coffin sits on a wall. Mercifully, the text is minimal, for Magritte's content is captivating beyond words...
...British principles to support a corrupt regime. To stretch a point or two, Disraeli even had a McGovern hectoring him in the person of Gladstone, the Liberal leader who thundered his righteous indignation at the power politics played behind his back. Gladstone was an inveterate moralizer who, as André Maurois once noted, "was reproached not so much for always having the ace of trumps up his sleeve as for claiming that God had put it there...
...black and white dancers. One of the best of them is Leslie Watanabe, who danced a leading role in McKayle's new Sojourn as though the work were not about a few visits, but about all time. Set to a wryly dissonant musical trifle, Rapsodie á Sept by André Jolivet, Sojourn sent the dancers back and forth in changing patterns like travelers meeting briefly at a crossroads. Another Inner City star is Michele Simmons, who brought a simple dignity to her Caribbean mujer eternal in McKayle's Songs of the Disinherited, then portrayed three faces of woman...
...balding French Corsican with an avuncular manner, was merely the proprietor of the Paris-Nice motel and café near Paraguay's somnolent capital city of Asuncion. To various international law-enforcement agencies, however, Ricord was much better known as the owner of a string of aliases (Mr. André, Lucien Darguelles, "El Comandante") and a police record that includes a bust for theft in prewar Marseille, a 1950 French conviction as a "dangerous" wartime Gestapo agent, and links in more recent years with prostitution in Argentina and Venezuela. Not long ago, Ricord picked up a new moniker: among...
...owns the echoing words of Charles de Gaulle? For years Reporter André Passeron of Paris' Le Monde trailed the general, copying down speeches, comments, even jokes. Published in two fat volumes, the results pleased De Gaulle so much that he mastered his dislike for journalists long enough to receive Passeron for 45 minutes. After De Gaulle's death in 1970, Passeron issued another volume containing 85 pages of quotations, including some that had become politically embarrassing. The book irked De Gaulle's son Philippe and daughter Elisabeth so much that they brought suit, insisting that...