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Braque's finest works; both have musical instruments as their theme, but they also undertake to show the instruments' rhythms. Robert Delaunay's Eiffel Tower is cubism at its most liquid, as if it were a scene reflected in a pool of troubled water, A few feet away, Delaunay uses powerful swirls of clashing colors to prove that "color alone is both form and subject." Rousseau was never more endearing than in his Artillerymen, who are all stiffly lined up as in a regimental photograph. And Marc Chagall was never more touching and imaginative than...
...parties are for men only and are in restaurants and nightclubs, but this year there was competition for odd places to hold them. Two groups chartered Tokyo streetcars; another went aboard a coastal steamer. One party was held atop Tokyo Tower, which bills itself as higher than the Eiffel Tower...
...quite so simple as it might seem. The woman is leaning almost to the point of falling, and her hands are pressed together as in prayer. Behind her a house looms at the same tentative angle, and a tiny goat trots on her head. Almost 40 years later, The Eiffel Tower Lovers are seated on the back of a large fowl that holds a bouquet of flowers as it approaches the tower with a blazing red sun in the background. The man is dressed, the girl naked. Between these two pictures are evidences of a fantastic and fascinating artistic vision...
Frenchmen looked up in wonder last year as a big orange balloon carrying two passengers floated back and forth across the country. Photographed by movie cameras in an accompanying helicopter, the balloon whisked by the spires of the Strasbourg Cathedral, almost bumped into the Eiffel Tower, skimmed within a few yards of Mont Blanc, dipped down to mast level over the Riviera. In Paris last week the resulting film, Voyage in a Balloon, gave audiences a stunning cloud's-eye view of virtually every remarkable tourist sight in France...
...last 13 years of his life, Mayakovsky performed Homeric feats for the revolution. He worked for party newspapers, drew more than 3,000 revolutionary posters for which he wrote flaming exhortations in prose and poetry. He wrote a brash poem inviting the Eiffel Tower to leave its decadent city and return with him to Moscow. He visited the U.S. in 1925 and dutifully reported that it was a guardian of bigotry, cents and bacon " But as time went on, he found more and more to irritate him at home, saw with growing disgust the commissars making the rules for poets...