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...garish. Indeed, the only part of the great outdoors he could handle with ease and pleasure was the sea -itself flat, rotating upward to face the viewer like a blue polygonal tablecloth -framed in the shuttered terrace door of a villa on the Côte d'Azur and bearing a yacht's triangular sails the way a folded napkin might sit on a table. It is this still-life sea, a geometrical image of repose and wellbeing, that suffuses some of Gris's finest still lifes, like the View of the Bay (see color overleaf), with...
...years Paris Match has been selling photojournalism à la LIFE. Each week in its pages, pictures on breaking news stories compete for space with lavish color spreads of Côte d'Azur celebrities and views of exotic locales. Since 1958, though, when its average sale peaked at 1,520,000 copies, the magazine has lost readers at a clip of 60,000 or 70,000 per year. Sales in 1971 dipped to 811,000 per week, and 1972 returns showed a further decrease. Rumors naturally followed that Match would be snuffed out. Last month Founder and Publisher Jean...
...than any other U.S. architect except perhaps I.M. Pei. He faceted façades with angled, deep-set windows, niches and geometrical shapes-all enlivened by the play of sunlight against shadow. At his IBM research center in La Gaude, near the Côte d'Azur, he elevated the entire building on Y-shaped sculptural columns that a less bold designer would have let stand straight. Indeed, the dominant theme in his design of other big buildings has been to create sculpture with a structural function...
LIVING WELL IS THE BEST REVENGE, by Calvin Tomkins. High life in Paris and on the Côte d'Azur with two rich Americans, one of whom became F. Scott Fitzgerald's Dick Diver in Tender Is the Night. Slight but beautiful...
...Lord Brett Sinclair (Roger Moore, TV's engaging former Saint), who is the Oxbridge playboy half of The Persuaders. His co-persuader is Danny Wilde, a new-rich high roller from The Bronx (Tony Curtis), and the two of them womanize and swashbuckle around the Cote d'Azur "in the name of justice." For all their jet-set airs, their plebeian repartee and stupefying plots make Roger and Tony emerge more like Batman and Robin in ascots. Catch the show fast lest the Nielsen ratings get there first...