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Alain Resnais's "La Guerre Est Finie" is a sombre and intellectual story of left-wing Spanish revolutionaries centered in Paris. Resnais has abandoned the strongly contrasting black-and-white tones of "Hiroshima Mon Amour" and "Last Year At Marienbad" in favor of low-contrast greys which deliberately reduce the effect of the plot's melodramatic content. Although the visual construction is simpler than that of "Marienbad" and "Muriel," Resnais does insert short scenes which represent the imagination of the hero, a tired revolutionary played brilliantly by Yves Montand...
...est un don, un cadeau pour Chicago," said Pablo Picasso. "It's a donation, a gift for Chicago." With those words, the Windy City became the recipient of one of the most magnificent windfalls in its history: Picasso's $100,-000 design for a 50-ft. sculpture to stand in front of the city's new $87 million civic center. Also without charge, the Spanish master-who will turn 85 next month-threw in his original 42-in. maquette for the Chicago Art Institute...
...Ministers and central bankers from ten nations paused during a two-day conference on international monetary problems for a banquet at Het Prinsenhof, the royal residence of William of Orange. Presiding as host, Dutch Finance Minister Anne Vondeling toasted his colleagues with an old French proverb: "Point n'est besoin d'esperer pour entreprendre ni de réussir pour persévérer [One need not hope in order to undertake, nor succeed in order to persevere]." Next day, by a 9-1 vote, with France's Michel Debré the only holdout, Ministers...
COLOR ME BARBRA (Columbia). Carpers have claimed that the second Streisand TV special was overproduced, but it would take a real Barbraphobe to fault this album of songs from the show. From the soft-shoe shuffle of Sam, You Made the Pants Too Long to Non, C'Est Rien, Streisand's first venture into French, this record extends the image...
...suit with extra-long coat and high-rising pleated side vents. Cardin also likes slacks with colored stripes up the side, flowered dinner jackets, four-inch-high collars and square hats. It is not, he insists, an Edwardian look: "I never look backward. I design for tomorrow. N'est-ce pas, Nicole...