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Standing atop the Arc de Triomphe, the American gazed in silence over the panorama of Paris, traditional city of light, of elegance and romance. Finally he spoke. "This isn't quite what I expected," said Bill Estes, 22, of Atlanta. "But I guess you can't stop progress...
Vandalized. As Parisians are learning, poorly designed buildings harm more than their immediate surroundings. The city's great visual axis, from the Place de la Concorde through the Arc de Triomphe, will be vandalized by the satellite city of La Défense. Not only will Défense's tall towers clumsily bracket the magnificent arch, but the development authority last week announced a new office complex that will actually block the view through the arch. It is like drawing a curtain across one of Paris' most famous vistas. Because the project is official, it apparently...
Carmines' music is extravagantly eclectic. He writes songs about war, Joan of Arc, peace, Gertrude Stein, pornography, Jesus Christ and W.C. Fields, all in a stylistic gamut that runs from Monteverdi to Montenegro. His favorite form is an extension of the turn-of-the-century ballad, on which he imposes anything that catches his fancy: tangos, hillbilly hymns, blues, echoes, jazz, gospel shouts, Puccini pastiches...
Similar misconceptions distorted the images of my other childhood heroines. I once envisioned the daring aviator, Amelia Earhart, in helmet and goggles to be at least as regal as Joan of Arc. Now I read how she crashed to an ambiguous death in the Pacific, amid rumors that she was on a secret espionage mission against Japan. And I read that Pocahontas, after heroically saving John Smith, eventually married a settler she may not even have loved, only to die in England three years later--just twenty-five--overcome by a bitter winter. And I pictured Lotta Crabtree, the actress...
...Darnley, for instance, a womanizing lech as Vivat has it? Or was he a homosexual as the movie has it? (He seems to have been the former.) The popular version of the story, accepted by those raving romantics Schiller and Donizetti, portrays Mary as a high-brogue Joan of Arc and Elizabeth as the Wicked Witch of the West. The new versions, sometimes wildly inaccurate in other ways, do at least correct that longstanding libel against poor Bess. The truth is that Mary probably was an accomplice in the murder of the philandering Darnley and that she constantly schemed...