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...Cinematic Animal. Gina Lollobrigida (36, 22, 35; 5 ft. 5 in.) does not quite belong in the bouquet. It is true that she was plucked as casually as any of the other gorgeous flowers (a director spotted her on the street), and that she probably has no more talent than it takes for a black-eyed Susan to allure a bee. Beauty she has to a thrilling degree-the helpless beauty of a dark little nymph who seems to wake the satyr in men. But the secret of Gina's success is not beauty, not brains, not even luck...
...week, nudes floated over the Champs-Elysees, an ass crouched impaled on the spire of the church of Saint-Germain-des-Pres with no visible air of discomfort, a sleek donkey proffered flowers to a foreshortened mermaid floating in a bubble above the Bastille. Over the Opera, a huge bouquet flowered against a turkey-blood sky; at its heart were three dim, blue figures echoing Carpeaux' famed group of statuary, The Dance, while two entwined lovers floated down the Avenue de 1'Opera oblivious of traffic (see opposite page). Marc Chagall, the small, elfin man with the face...
...Vermeer, a flower painting by Chardin, give us a view of a world where man is less antlike than in his own." But, Onimus responds: "What anguish in these few lines! And, in fact, perhaps what misgivings! Does Malraux seriously believe that Vermeer's alcove, Chardin's bouquet, however beautiful they are, contain within them the power of salvation? . . . His position is untenable...
Very Charming. At the airport, an Egyptian official greeted Jennie Lee with a bouquet of pink roses. Later, for 40 minutes, the couple chatted at the bedside of President Naguib who, in pajamas and dressing gown, was recovering from flu. "A great man," said Bevan later. "Very charming," added Jennie, "very charming." For another hour they had an audience with Lieut. Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser, Vice Premier and strongman of the military regime, who recited Egypt's argument on the Suez issue. "I merely listened," reported Bevan...
...Immaculate Conception (which holds that the Mother of Jesus Christ was preserved from original sin). For the occasion, the Pope drove through downtown Rome for the first time since the war. In the Piazza di Spagna, at the foot of the magnificent Spanish Steps, he stopped to place a bouquet of flowers at the column commemorating the Immaculate Conception. Then he drove on to the church of Santa Maria Maggiore (where, 55 years ago next April, at 23. the future Pope celebrated his first Mass...