Word: corsicas
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Ortoli, the Corsica-born, Hanoi-raised son of a high-level French civil servant, has up to now moved steadily higher because he has proved an apt and loyal troubleshooter for Pompidou. That, presumably, is precisely the quality Pompidou desires at the head of the Common Market Commission. Britain, West Germany and Benelux fear that as successor to hearty Pan-European Sicco Mansholt, Ortoli will favor Pompidou's cautious approach to European integration, pressures for an EEC "political secretariat" in Paris, and insistence on strict independence from...
Marriage Revealed. Peter Ustinov, 51, Britain's bearish author, director, raconteur and two-time Academy Award winner for acting (Spartacus in 1960, Topkapi in 1964); and Helene du-Laud-Allemans, French-born journalist; he for the third time, she for the first; on June 17 on Corsica. In declining to give his bride's age, Ustinov cracked: "She is younger than I am, but not so young as to make marriage to an elderly gentleman ridiculous...
...walk six miles carrying those goddam suitcases to the ship." But Dita says hers was heavier than the others. "Everyone else had nice dainty underwear in their suitcases, and here I got twelve bottles of booze." She served in Casablanca, Algiers and for 13 months on Corsica, getting to know a lot of military airmen. She claims that she "used to fly P-47s sitting on the pilot...
...Pompidou for a vehicle." At the Trianon, Pompidou hosted a state dinner that included so many French wines and champagnes that Brezhnev had to forgo another ceremonial dinner next evening. Security was heavy. Potential troublemakers were rounded up and sent aboard a chartered jet for a paid vacation in Corsica to last the duration of Brezhnev's stay. Ten thousand flics and riot police, the largest concentration since the days of Algerian upheaval, were assigned to protect Brezhnev wherever he moved...
...scrupulous account of a creative mind should do, this show explores the earliest years, particularly the vivid paintings done in Corsica in 1898 and hardly seen since. The most sweeping changes that Matisse was to make are shyly explored in those first pictures. He celebrated well-laden tables, played with the refractions of light in liquid and glass, and caressed fruits and rich surfaces. He was hypnotized by the mysterious contrast between the cool interior and the hot partial view through the open window. But it was the human form that held for him the ultimate sensuous appeal...