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Copley had invented Romantic horror-painting, but he never followed up his invention. That remained for Frenchman Theodore Gericault, whose Raft of the Medusa (see color) came 40 years later. Critics have made much of what Gericault owed to Michelangelo and Caravaggio, have tended to overlook his connection with Copley. Yet the similarity of composition (a pyramid tilted toward the horizon) and especially of spirit argues for Gericault's having known Copley's picture. Splendid though they are. both Copley's and Gericault's men-against-the-sea-scapes seem as dated today as they once...
...After clinging close to the lead through most of the 24-day, 2,800-mile Tour de France, the grueling bike race that winds around France and into Italy and Bel gium, Roger Walkowiak, 29, a Frenchman of Polish descent, almost came to grief on the final lap. He had a blowout 20 kilometers from the finish. But Roger reso-utely grabbed a teammate's bike, pumped madly for home, hung on to his time advantage and prizes and contracts worth more than...
...French revolutions. At one time, Frederick of Prussia seated him at dinner next to the defeated Cornwallis. Nothing is recorded of the civilities between these former antagonists (Yorktown), but an exchange between the King and the Frenchman...
Most of the audience seemed amused at the frequent lute retuning forced on Heartz in this group of works. But this problem has always plagued lutanists. A Frenchman once remarked, "I have more trouble keeping my lute fit for playing than maintaining my whole stable of horses...
...Machine. When it came to translating such complex matters into the precise science of soaring, no man at Saint-Yan could compare with a thin, grave U.S. meteorologist named Paul B. MacCready Jr. "He's a ruddy machine," complained one Englishmen. "He's a sorcerer," whispered a Frenchman. Said a more practical American: "He's a genius...