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...adaptation of Dumas' The Three Musketeers and Moliere's George Dandin. Musketeers is a nightlong spoof of the romantic spirit. The production presents Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'Artagnan as meddlesome buffoons, a quartet of Gallic Ritz Brothers. In one sequence, neon-lit ropes arc the stage like tracer bullets while the cast ruefully announces that it has lost the threads of the plot...
...born, Brooklyn-raised painter has been enamored of abstraction ever since his G.I. bill studies in Paris. When he first attracted national attention in 1961 by winning an award at Pittsburgh's International Exhibition, his prize painting consisted of two painted blobs of blue, divided by a yellow arc. In late 1963, he took to spreading paint over an entire canvas with a roller, subsequently progressed to sprays and to bounding his spray paintings with a painted streak. Lately he has been going back to his earlier canvases and changing them or adding that all-important final boundary...
Shunning Balkan influence, generations of Rumanian writers, including Eugène lonesco, looked toward Paris for inspiration. Bucharest itself was planned in arrondissements like Paris, with wide, tree-lined boulevards, street cafes and a replica of the Arc de Triomphe. The Rumanian language is peppered with French words...
Obviously embarrassed by such disorder on the eve of Viet Nam peace talks, Charles de Gaulle warned that further violence would not be tolerated. Yet the clashes continued: 30,000 students marched up the Champs Elysées to the Arc de Triomphe, singing the Communist Internationale on the way. By midweek, student strikes and demonstrations had spread to a dozen provincial cities, and even high school pupils picketed in large numbers to demand the release of 100 jailed rioters. Nanterre reopened, but students and nearly half the faculty struck in sympathy with the stillshuttered Sorbonne...
...FRIDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Joan of Arc (1950), with Ingrid Bergman, Jose Ferrer and Ward Bond...