Word: azure
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nine paintings, plus several dozen of the thousands of plates that the old demon gouged and scribbled into existence--are to be hung. The room is an expansive stage designer's version of a renovated Provencal farmhouse, only brand-new, and with touches not found on the Cote d'Azur, such as a carpet by Claude Picasso and a ceiling in the entrance hall thickly lined with broken amphorae brought in from Mexico. The paintings--still lifes from the '40s, and a lush little jewel of a head of his mistress Marie-Therese Walter--actually look terrific in here, with...
Well, that's all for now. See you in the Casbah or Key West or the Cote d'Azur...
...China's Gong Li -- stopped by to promote their films and to underline, by their presence, the absence of any world- class megastars except for Clint Eastwood, who was serving as president of this year's festival jury. Even the weather, which brings more folks to this Cote d'Azur playground than cinephiles would care to admit, was only moderately fabulous. It appeared as if the 47th edition of the movie industry's biggest annual deal-fest would tiptoe into history with a sigh and a shrug...
...first of four Haitian leaders to take the air shuttle to exile, Duvalier lives on the Cote d'Azur. Though a court dismissed Haiti's $120 million suit to recover embezzled funds, money isn't everything. Bored with the good life, wife Michele divorced...