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Sophie Vasseur (Romane Bohringer) has eyes made for adoration. They are large, dark, serious, so very intense; they might belong to a puppy just saved from the city pound. Sophie's eyes have found their love object in Irene Brice (Elena Safonova), a concert singer in occupied Paris during World War II. Talented and high-spirited, apparently gliding through life, Irene can juggle the affections of a businessman husband (Richard Bohringer) and a lover (Samuel Labarthe) who is in the Resistance. Sophie, a promising pianist, is pleased to be Irene's accompanist and maid; she serves tea, irons, watches, tries...
...death of President Francois Mitterrand's scandal-tarnished Socialist Party, which faces almost sure defeat in this month's parliamentary elections, and laying the groundwork for his own 1995 presidential bid. Mitterrand, of course, has dismissed the idea. But other Socialists and independents are reacting positively. On Wednesday, Brice Lalonde, head of one of the country's two ecologist parties, voiced interest in joining Rocard's grand scheme. The ecologists, who may command up to 20% of the vote this month, could provide the margin for a Rocard victory...
...fringes, two environmentalist parties, the Greens and the newly formed Ecology Generation, pulled nearly 14%, more than double any previous share. The two, however, are as much rivals as allies. Ecology Generation is led by Brice Lalonde, who is Environment Minister in Mitterrand's Cabinet and is called "the Pink Submarine" by his opponents; they view him as a subversive Socialist who uses ecology as a front to promote his ambitions. Lalonde, in turn, calls Antoine Waechter, the leader of the Greens, a "totalitarian" who rejects all compromise...
...Brice Marden's "Cold Mountain" paintings of 1988-91 -- six of them, big ones, 9 ft. by 12 ft., backed up by a few dozen drawings and prints -- are now on view at the Dia Center for the Arts in New York City. This is a show and a half. How fast, how silently, the sight of a real sensibility at full stretch can cut through the visual jabber and white noise of so much of the gallery scene! On the evidence of these new works, Marden, 53, is now the finest American abstract painter of his generation...
...Brice Marden: best abstract painter of his generation...