Word: azure
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sort of a floating court of the Medici. When the steamer Renaissance began a leisurely 14-day croisiere de musique off the Côte d'Azur, it had on board a classic boatload of cash and culture. Some 200 music lovers paid up to $4,500 to glide around the Mediterranean to the personal accompaniment of the likes of Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, Violinist Alexander Schneider, Flautist Jean-Pierre Rampal and Dancer Rudi Nureyev. Each day the geniuses would entertain the guests. Rostropovich, who left Russia on a two-year visa last May, was the star both...
...Connection II, a sequel to the award-winning 1971 dope flick. But as any real narc could tell them, this time they have the wrong location. For the moment at least, the French connection has been largely broken, along with the heroin-processing laboratories on the Cote d'Azur and the Corsican drug rings that ran them. The new center for the European heroin trade is, of all places, the jewel-box city of Amsterdam...
...Estaing joined thousands of his countrymen by packing up his wife and four teen-age children for a vacation at the beach. While his constituency fought for space in the sand, however, Giscard enjoyed some swimming, tennis and boating in the privacy of a Cote d' Azur estate bor rowed from Prince and Princess de la Tour d'Auvergne. "My vacation I devote especially to my children," declared Giscard to a French reporter, then came in out of the sun for a quick shuttle flight to Paris for a Cabinet meeting...
...when Miró produced his ravishing color-field paintings of the 1960s, like Blue II, the space was not neutral: it was the sky, swelling with blue, a historical and literary blue that has woven through modern French culture ever since Stephane Mallarme's paean to I'azur. "In my pictures there are tiny forms in vast empty spaces. Empty space, empty horizons, empty plains, everything that is stripped has always impressed...
...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...