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...story is set. This was a time of dramatic contradiction in Paris, for despite the air raid warnings and the sudden imposition of the Nazi superstructure, some normal life continued to exist. It was, paradoxically, a time of artistic flowering in France--many theaters flourished, and Les Enfants du Paradis was being filmed. Camus and the like were writing for the newspapers and carrying on the Resistance. There was an intellectual and social defiance which the Nazis could never conquer, and it continued despite the imposition of censorship and curfew--even though if one missed the last metro, the veneer...
...that houses an immense information service called The Source. Customers can tap into 2,000 sources of data, ranging from a nationwide listing of job openings and up-to-the-minute financial news to world airline schedules and the entire catalogue for the wine library of Les Amis du Vin. During evening hours and weekends, the cost of bringing this information into the home is $2.75 an hour...
Thus Van Gogh's painting of the café terrace on the Place du Forum in Aries (1888), with its harsh contrasting color -deep nocturnal blue against yellow lamplight under the awning, streaks of orange opposing the absinthe green of the cafe tabletops-was both a direct act of natural vision and a tribute to Louis Anquetin's Avenue de Clichy: Five O'clock in the Evening, 1887. Anquetin, drawing on childhood memories of seeing his parental garden through stained-glass lozenges in the front door, had suffused his view of a Paris street in a deep...
...sense, Gjon Mili is the Marcel Du-champ of photography. As a trained engineer he pioneered the use of electronic flash and multiple-exposure photographs, then, in 1938, started doing stories for LIFE magazine. There he revolutionized his art and influenced two generations of journalists. "Time could truly be made to stand still," he recalls in this extraordinary book of prose and picture recollections. "Texture could be retained despite sudden, violent movement." The book includes a fair number of famous Mili pictures doing just that: his own version of Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase; the 37-mm cannon...
...design a ballet around Stravinsky's Suite from "L'Histoire du Soldat"? When George Balanchine asked him to do just that last fall, Peter Martins, a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet, thought he knew very well why not. With six pieces of choreography to his credit, Martins, 34, was promising but relatively inexperienced. Even veteran choreographers have found Stravinsky's jagged rhythms and irregular beats difficult, if not impossible to translate into movement. L'Histoire du Soldat, which originated as a theater piece with libretto, has virtually resisted a successful dance setting ever...