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...structure, which will be lighted at night, will be surrounded by three smaller pyramids connected by triangular pools and fountains. The whole design in itself resembles a huge frozen fountain. It will be the centerpiece of a comprehensive expansion and reorganization of the Louvre ordered by French President François Mitterrand. No price tag has been put on the project, which is expected to take five years to complete. Mitterrand, an admirer of Pei's East Wing of the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., personally selected the 66-year-old, Chinese-born architect for the job; and last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Pei's Pyramid Perplexes Paris | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

...presidential campaign of 1981, François Mitterrand sharply criticized that pell-mell pace, partly because a sluggish economy had dampened demand for electricity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: From Paris to Peking, Fission Is Still in Fashion | 2/13/1984 | See Source »

...Tharp's "Push Comes to Shove." This ballet is a with, virtuosic, humorous dance that had its world premiere in 1976. This almost ultra modern dance takes classical ballet and turns it inside out. Twyla Tharp catches each tradition and turns it into a hilarious joke. With music by Fran, Joseph Hayden and Joseph Lamp and a confident, clever set of dancers. "Push Comes to Shove" was a smashing hit. Tuesday night Danilo Radojevic. Marianna Techerkasky and Susan Jaffe led the ballet although Cheryl Yeager and Clark Tippet each made substantial contributions to the dance's success...

Author: By Andrea Fastenberg, | Title: Comme Ci, Comme Ca | 2/3/1984 | See Source »

...York Mets--Announced that Fran Healy will replace Bud Harrelson as a broad caster...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 1/6/1984 | See Source »

...womanizer is a great subject for farce, and a challenging one for tragedy. What he is not is a suitable subject for sympathy. This film, which turns François Truffaut's delicious 1977 Gallic soufflé into singles' restaurant quiche, suffers centrally from that miscalculation. Producer-Director Blake Edwards, normally a gifted farceur ("10," S.O.B.), turned to a psychologist for help with this screenplay, with predictably shrinking effect on the picture's sense of fun. Edwards' wife Julie Andrews is the doctor who eventually succumbs to Burt Reynolds, essaying the title role. Robbed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Santa's Mixed Bag of Celluloid | 12/26/1983 | See Source »

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