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...relaxed figure for someone who had just lost his country. It was time for the interview. "Where is your photographer?" he asked, sounding disappointed. What Fujimori cared about most was appearing on the cover of TIME. "For the cover maybe it would be better outside in the garden," he said...
Their three acres, a 10-minute walk from the small hilltop village of Viens, feature a garden with the requisite stone picnic table, a fountain waiting for a plumber and a driveway requiring four-wheel-drive vehicles. "The initial appeal of this area was due to all of the trite stuff, like the light, the food and the countryside," says Strait, 56, a former lawyer who once lived in Paris for five years. "We loved this part of France and wanted to get a new place while we both made the transition from full-time work to something completely different...
KIDS LOVE: The Central Garden, created by artist Robert Irwin, which changes with the seasons. They flock to Vincent van Gogh's Irises and The Entry of the Animals into Noah's Ark by Jan Bruegel the Elder. Best of all, kids can view Maria Frederike van Reede-Athlone at Seven by Jean-Etienne Liotard, then go to the Family Room, where there is a reproduction, complete with 18th century period costumes...
KIDS LOVE: Egyptian mummies and Frederic Church's painting Icebergs. Dole takes his kids to the sculpture garden to see Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen's Stake Hitch, "so they can touch and feel the artwork...
Similar worries surfaced about Tony Smith's "Stinger," a diamond-shaped, 6'6" prism that had been displayed at the 1968 Museum of Modern Art sculpture garden before traveling to Europe. "Stinger," suggestive of physical transition or spiritual passage through a portal, forms a cavernous 32' square, which raised concerns about public sex, in addition to distaste for its large steel presence. Demolition prevented "Stinger"'s installation the day before it was supposed to go up. On May 25, unidentified vandals smashed the cement mount supports for the piece, forcing Tucker to send it back to its Jersey warehouse...