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...Breton, Moreau is "the great solitary of the Rue de La Rochefoucauld who carried farthest the power of evocation." U.S. Abstractionist Mark Tobey said of his work: "There are 200 years of painting here." Other observers might feel more inclined to agree with the art critic of Lettres Françaises: "I don't believe there is a public in 1961 that could lay claim to being drawn to this parade of dandies, she-animals, androgynes and all the comics of mythology. The form is thin, compromised by heavy preoccupation with detail. The landscapes are artificial and the nudes...
...cover their own inadequacies, they often over-label until the reader misses the point for the paragraphs. "There are little figures running around labeled 'Administration,' " says the London Evening Standard's Vicky, "and if they draw a cloud, they label it 'cloud.' " Snorts Effel (François Lejeune) of Paris' L'Express: "Most American cartoons look like a picnic after the picnickers have gone home...
Goodbye Again is the film version of Françoise Sagan's novel, Aimez-Vous Brahms. In it, Montand is required to pretend that he is a middle-aged trucking executive who, after five years as Ingrid's lover, prefers to spend his time with younger models. Ingrid has a lugubrious affair with Perkins, a spoiled young loafer, after he lures her to a concert with the mysteriously seductive incantation, "Aimez-vous Brahms?" There is a letup in the mooning when Perkins' exasperated boss asks him what the trouble is. "I just realized I've never...
...Caribbean island of Hispaniola is divided into two nations-Haiti, where the politics is bad; and the Dominican Republic, where it is worse. Over the past four years, Haiti's President François Duvalier, a onetime physician, has done little to improve the lot of a country that depends on a $5,000,000 annual U.S. dole to balance its budget and whose ragged peasants still exist on a per capita income of less than $100, lowest in the hemisphere. But he has obviously learned a great deal about how to stay in power from his neighbor, Dictator...
...strongman did not run officially, but the words "Doctor François Duvalier-President" appeared on every ballot throughout the republic. After it was all over, Haitians learned to their surprise that they had not only elected a new Parliament but-announced Haiti's attorney general-had also voted Duvalier a second six-year term as President...