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...national furor: the Paris municipal council's unanimous but hasty decision last week to change the Place de 1'Etoile to Place Charles de Gaulle. Judging from newspaper editorials and talk in the bistros, vast numbers of Frenchmen seemed to feel that the famous site of the Arc de Triomphe and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is too sacrosanct to be renamed for any individual, however great...
...water to irrigate surrounding gardens. The elephant would contain a restaurant and ballroom and be surmounted by a gigantic statue of King Louis XV. The proposal was rejected, as were others to construct a white marble obelisk or an enormous sundial there. It was Napoleon who conceived the massive Arc de Triomphe in 1806 as a monument to the heroes of the French victory at Marengo. The arch was completed 30 years later during the reign of Louis-Philippe, and the place was laid out by Haussmann...
Within the cathedral, the dark clothes of the mourners contrasted with the brilliant red trimmings on the uniforms of the Garde Républicaine. A soft light from the huge circles of the rose windows was obscured by scores of arc lights for color-TV coverage. In the apse behind the choir hung an enormous ceiling-to-floor tricolor. When Pompidou and his wife entered, the white-robed cathedral choir began a chorale from Bach's St. Matthew Passion. Within an hour, the service ended with a Magnificat. The same anthem had closed the Notre Dame service in which...
Painter Riley's development spans a ten-year arc from the aggressiveness of her early black-and-white images to the imperiled quiet of such new stripe paintings as Apprehend, 1970. First reactions to her work may run from puzzlement to nausea. But Riley has always denied she means to hurt the eyes, aiming only for "a stimulating, an active, a vibrating pleasure." But not relaxation -the pleasure is existential, a tuning of the consciousness. In a picture like Cataract III, the eye has no resting place. The viewer scans the inexorably waving lines with something akin to mounting...
Muffling stray interference will be a more difficult job. Most of the new electronic gadgetry-color TV sets, arc welders, diathermy machines-are potential electromagnetic polluters. As the Government's watchdog over the air waves, the Federal Communications Commission was recently authorized to take stiffer action against manufacturers of interference-causing equipment. But even though investigations of complaints have already been increased sharply, the FCC does not expect to achieve what engineers call electromagnetic compatibility very soon. "The smog will be with us for a long time," says one FCC official. "We'll have to suffer with...