Word: berges
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME, April 27, 1962). Mired in a vast swamp of bureaucracy, militant unions and second-rate talent, the state-operated Paris Opera had foundered helplessly for nearly two decades. Five postwar administrators had promised revolution, only to sink quietly into the morass. Some tried staging productions à la Folies-Bergère, featuring flights of ballerinas being hoisted to heaven on wires, madly flapping their arms and showering rose petals while spray guns hissed perfume into the audience. But the audiences hissed right back, and the Paris Opera, a towering rococo palace covering three acres right in the heart...
When the girls of the Folies-Bergère filled out questionnaires for the benefit of the American press, many listed their measurements as 90-60-90. Mere reporters have seldom been entrusted with information of such magnitude. But with a second long look, they realized that the girls were only thinking in centimeters...
That about says it for the Folies-Bergère: in one sense, it promised to be the biggest bust in memory, and in another it is. The French revue of flesh and spectacle opened last week in Manhattan. Even beforehand, Peeping Toms began to swarm and cluster around the Broadway Theater because they had heard that some of the girls were rehearsing without so much as a sequin to outflash their natural splendors. But, alas, even a relatively small sequin could do just that...
...while the orchestra saws out some Offenbach, and they kick up their legs in what can be precisely described as the can't-can't. Georges Ulmer, the man who wrote the ballad Pigalle and who acts as M.C., tells a joke: "The Folies-Bergère is an old institution, nearly 100 years old. Of course, lately we have changed some of the girls." He does not say which ones, and without radioactive carbon it is absolutely impossible to tell...
Direct as Oils. Seventy-two artists have come to Tamarind to see and conquer lithography. Lipchitz' only litho bears Tamarind's chop. Richard Diebenkorn, Antonio Frasconi, John Hult-berg, Henry Pearson, John Paul Jones, Misch Kohn, James McGarrell, Louise Nevelson, Rico Lebrun and Jose Luis Cuevas have done prints there...