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...means. An eccentric? Certainly. Like Peter de Labigarre, who fled the French Revolution to the U.S., built the Chateau de Tivoli where the village now stands and planned a Utopian commune there, Broadmoore is a refugee-not from revolution but from what he regards as the all-pervasive standardization of American life. "I like to imagine that I am living in the 19th century," he told TIME'S Eileen Shields. "I call it an experiment. I am capable of discoursing in modern terms. But as soon as I am alone, I revert to my imagination, which is the past...
...Toys. Lucien is beguiled by the style in which the police maintain themselves: an elegant chateau, sleek automobiles, well-cut clothes, good food and drink, compliant women. More than the luxury, though, he likes the taste of power. Lucien receives credentials and guns, which he displays freely with a certain sullen, anxious strength. But he never entirely dispels the impression of a child showing off new toys. A police pal takes him to his tailor to buy him his first suit...
Maze of Grass. Apart, that is, from earthwork artists. Unfortunately, the Newport show is short on earthworks -simply because land there costs too much. There is one piece by Richard Fleischner, in the grounds of Chateau-sur-Mer, that shows exactly the kind of unpretentious but intelligent relation that an earthwork can have to its environment: an undulating meander maze, a barely noticeable ripple on the lawn, covered with sod grass. It is low-key and perfectly appropriate in its site, harking back to a time when stately homes had garden labyrinths as a matter of course...
Unlike the pair of Chopin waltzes that Pianist Byron Janis found in a French chateau in 1967, the Brahms Sonata for Cello and Piano in D Major has not languished in some dark castle. For some 60 years it had been filed and forgotten in the library of the Vienna Municipal Conservatory. Six months ago Gottfried Marcus, a pianist and musicologist, happened across the manu script. This spring the work was per formed on a Viennese television culture short. "I was in the middle of rebuild ing my house, in the midst of the mess with a TV going...
...seating capacity of a dinner theater can vary from 200 to 800, and the atmosphere ranges from the cozy rusticity of the Coachlight in Warehouse Point, Conn., to the early Las Vegas eleganza of the neighboring Chateau de Ville. But with few exceptions there are four constants: 1) a huge parking lot; 2) expensive drinks; 3) an enormous meal at tables crammed to fire department limits around a stage often no bigger than the platter under the ubiquitous roast beef; and 4) light comedy or musicals after dinner interrupted by lengthy intermissions during which patrons can refill those expensive drinks...