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...even suggested "a better subject"-a TV race between Charles de Gaulle and Ben Bella, both in shorts and "bicycling madly in the Algerian velodrome, with Ben Bella winning." As for historical hilarity, Bousgarbiès said he could even stomach a current Paris revue that portrays Joan of Arc hearing those voices and then yanking a transistor radio out of her bodice. But tax-paid satire of Napoleon? "Scandalous," bristled the aged avocat. "I would be just as upset to see Joan of Arc doing a striptease or Clemenceau wrestling on government television...
...more pairs of lovers, Berlioz' Romeo and Juliet and Wagner's Tristan and Isolde, coo near the Arc de Triomphe. With all its harmonic colors and winged grace, Chagall's soaring canopy is a lofty challenge to music...
...from impressive. The general gave vague promises of technical aid and increased trade. He flattered South American self-esteem with lofty references to Bolivar, San Martín and Sucre, and in turn was feted with speeches filled with mentions of Pascal, Racine, Montesquieu, Rousseau and Jeanne d'Arc. He entertained the rich and wellborn at receptions, and nodded and waved with friendly but aloof dignity to the huge crowds that jammed the streets and the squares to see him and hail...
...film of oil not much thicker than a human hair, moves on a 30-ton bearing with the ease of a ship's gyro. The oil bearing eliminates what engineers call "stiction," for static friction, enables the antenna to rotate through more than three degrees of arc in less than one second, make a complete 180-degree about-face in less than one minute. With such agility, Haystack can track anything that can be tossed into space, right down to a fast, low-altitude satellite put up by a hostile military power...
With perverse sentimentality, posterity often remembers history's losers more fondly than the luckier or more competent heroes who beat them. But nothing like this Joan of Arc or Mary Queen of Scots effect has occurred in the case of Jefferson Davis. The public memory retains his name, but his deeds and character are dimmer than Hannibal's. Perhaps it is because Davis refused to let himself be forgiven, and went on proclaiming the Tightness of the South's cause until his death in 1889. Or it may be that the popular taste for gallant losers...