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...painting of the Loire Valley Château de Lassay that was sold by a Paris gallery last month had a price tag of $6,000. It carried the signature of Painter Bernard Buffet. But neither the price nor Buffet's reputation intimidated the flics, who swooped down on the gallery and legally "seized" the painting, forbidding the purchaser from taking it home. They were acting on a court order obtained by Marcel de Marchéville, owner of the 478-year-old chateau. When a man's castle is his home -and is classified a national monument...
...Marchéville's legal grounds seem as impressive as the 430 acres that surround his château. The building is not visible from any public vantage point, but the proprietor sells tour tickets for 63?. Buffet, who made a preliminary sketch from the edge of the moat, presumably gained entrance by purchasing a ticket-with a warning in both French and English: "Taking pictures outside is tolerated, but unauthorized commercial use of films, negatives or any documents will be legally prosecuted...
...Buffet argues that the château is "part of the national patrimony" and therefore fair artistic game. But he can hardly be too upset. The publicity has helped his show to sell out completely. As for De Marchéville, his little-known château is now a true landmark...
...Adler crystallizes the radical tragedy: "A movement born out of a corruption of the vocabulary of civil rights-pre-empting the terms that belonged to a truly oppressed minority and applying them to the situation of some bored children committed to choosing what intellectual morsels they liked from the buffet of life -now luxuriated in the cool political vocabulary, while the urban civil rights movement, having nearly abandoned its access to the power structure, thrashed about in paroxysms of self-destruction. Both had become so simplistically opposed to order of any kind that society may become simplistic and repressive...
...ignition, nothing that TV says or does can re-create the waves of sound that actually buffet the ears, chest and gut of the spectator. The slowness of lift-off contrasts incredibly with the acceleration into flight. The head goes back, hands are raised to block out the sun, tears of relief and perhaps pride fill the eye. The sense of brute power boring an escape hole through the atmosphere is heightened by a sudden realization that one is being left behind. The earth itself seems to be dropping away as fast as the wingless rocket is accomplishing the completely...