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Trying to disentangle the woman, who was born Aurore Dupin in 1804, from the legendary creature known as George Sand could easily have proved a biographer's undoing. But Curtis Gate, whose previous work includes a biography of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, approaches the task with both the patience of a scholar and the relish of a storyteller. He manages to puncture the myth without deflating the life. From the moment she arrived in Paris in 1831, a 26-year-old berrichonne provincial fleeing from her small-spirited husband, rumor began placing her in bed with almost...
...movie is an adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's visionary fairy tale about a pilot, crash-landed in the Sahara, who confronts his own innocence in the form of a very young man of royalty from a distant planet. The score is by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe-their first collaboration since Camelot in 1960. The music misses the simple, rhapsodic melancholy Saint-Exupéry achieved in his prose, but it excels at capturing the pilot's wistfulness, the Little Prince's spirit and their joy in finding each other...
Difficult Challenge. The story's rather inconsistent mysticism stumbles into sentimentality once or twice, but Donen makes even that seductive. He has made no attempt to mimic Saint-Exupéry's eloquent line drawings. Instead, he has some of them reproduced when the pilot does sketches on a note pad for the Little Prince. It is an act of friendly homage that devotees of the book will like as much as Donen's fidelity to the fragile spirit of the original. He has in fact pulled off a rather difficult challenge. The visual style...
...story-high geodesic sphere to the pioneering functionalism of Habitat 67 (where Pearson has an apartment) and Canada's own inverted pyramid Katimavik (Eskimo for gathering place). The unifying theme of the exposition, "Man and His World," is taken from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's Terre des Homines and his ringing affirmation: "To be a man is to feel that by carrying one stone you can contribute to the building of the world." Fittingly enough, there have never before been so many government sponsored exhibitions (Expo's 62 countries easily top the 42 at Brussels...
...Bella, which by last week blossomed into a full-scale ideological struggle, with Ben Bella backed by Egypt's Nasser and a host of black African nations. Dramatizing its case against Morocco's supposedly "feudal" and "imperialist" regime, Algeria broadcast a parody of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince, with Hassan in the title role and a supporting cast of Uncle Sam, King Farouk and David Ben-Gurion...