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...moved his artifacts and files from the Elysee Palace. The presidential communication lines to Colombey were cut, and the other trappings of his office?except for a secretary, a bodyguard and a chauffeur, to which he was entitled along with a $35,000 pension?evaporated like a morning dew. The long era of Charles de Gaulle was over, for France and for the rest of the world...
...Dew and Snow. Half a century before the Impressionists, Constable was fascinated by the effects of light-in particular, light that came from his beloved and changeable English sky. His ambition, he said, was to "give one moment caught from fleeting time a lasting and sober existence." In his sketches are dozens of studies of clouds. He strove to capture the sparkling play of light on leaves, grass and stones. To achieve this, he daubed little blobs of white and color onto his canvases, making no attempt to blend them-as can be seen in his enchanting little study...
...youth was fin de siècle; her philosophy was fin du monde. She was an earthly personification of Emily Dickinson's inebriate of air and debauchee of dew, stoned on life and art. In answer to the question, "What gods has mankind worshipped?" Dancer Isadora Duncan once replied: "Dionysus - yesterday. Christ - today. After tomorrow, Bacchus at last!" In short she was the quintessential bohemian, the ideal subject for a screen biography. The Loves of Isadora supplies the ideal object: Vanessa Redgrave, whose enactment of Duncan carries with it an exquisite sensitivity and a formidable intelligence...
...impressive passer nor a particularly outstanding runner. And his play selection is sometimes suspect. He is currently being billed as an 'All-American candidate.' His campaign platform is simple: He's a winner." -- Dick Dew...
...such insights, a subscriber pays $50 a year; so far, 1,000 have signed up. They may find that the message of Dew-Line does not vary much from issue to issue, though the format does. The first issue, for example, was more of a traditional newsletter, with four pages of closely spaced type celebrating the arrival of the software age. Other surprises are in store, including phonograph records. Still, for a man who considers printed words obsolete, McLuhan seems to be addicted to them...