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...frippery. Light as whipped cream, sparkling as champagne, frivolous as a Rococco ceiling, Beaumarchais' Figaro spices the Loeb mainstage this weekend. Intellectual content? Probably very little (but if you need an excuse to gambol the first weekend of Reading Period, try to trace the Moliere influences). Scholarly substance? Come now (though if you insist, this was the primary source for both Mozart's "Marriage of Figaro" and Rossini's "Barber of Seville"). Profundity? Not a smidgen, I hope. But for you brain-becobwebbed hordes, here's energy and elegance, a jewel-box set and pure Goya costumes, zip and charm...
This year's r.t.w.-the initials could as well stand for razzmatazz-to-wacky-produced no bombshells, but a few Roman candles, and squibs aplenty. It also offered something for just about everyone. The influences, as Le Figaro's Hélène de Turckheim noted, could be traced to "the 1940s, the 1950s, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, Star Wars, Close Encounters, the army, the church and even the crowning of Bangui's Emperor Bokassa...
...A.B.T. repertory and other men take Basil's part. Right now Baryshnikov's dynamism puts things off balance, much as Marlon Brando's Broadway perfo mance in A Streetcar Named Desire obscured the fact that the play was really about Blanche DuBois. Baryshnikov is the Figaro of Spanish barbers. He flirts recklessly, he fumes, he pouts. He does a wonderful bit with two mugs, leaping and drinking out of both at once. He has a hilarious, hollow-eyed mad scene in which he stabs himself- a sort of male Giselle. No choreographer-dancer is more generous...
...increased spending, taxes and inflation that a leftist government might bring. Moreover, many previously undecided voters, and moderate Socialists as well, were astonished at the news of Mitterrand's giveaway of ministries to the Communists. MITTERRAND YIELDS TO MARCHAIS'S DIKTAT, headlined the conservative daily Le Figaro. Premier Barre called the leftist accord a "masquerade," a "deception" and a "masterpiece of evasion...
...jailed briefly for ration-law violations and collaborationist activities, offenses for which he was later banned from holding office or owning any publication. Amnestied in 1952, he built an automotive magazine into a press empire that now embraces 27 publications. Hersant's purchase of Figaro, and in 1976, of France Soir (circ. 443,100), Paris' largest afternoon daily, doubled the size of his holdings. It has been widely reported that leading right-of-center politicians, including former Premier Jacques Chirac and National Assembly President Edgar Faure, helped arrange the sales to keep the papers firmly in the hands...