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Caressing Shadows. Edouard Manet, who eventually won the Légion d'honneur ribbon, strove mightily to stay on the good side of the academicians. Though his subject matter was often as old as Giorgione's and Raphael's, the fact that he presented his themes in modern dress was enough to outrage viewers brought up on neoclassicism and romantic literary allusions. Manet discovered his clue to portraiture, and his fresh, vigorous palette, in the paintings of the 17th century painter Velásquez. In The Fifer, Manet even used the same greyish background Velásquez...
...Guest Like Connecticut schoolgirls on Commencement Day, the geishas of Japan gather together on the Day of the Seven Herbs at the end of Japan's New Year feasting to receive their awards for a year well spent. Last week, as the fragile and mannered geishas of Gion, one of Kyoto's most famed geisha districts, trooped into the auditorium of their two-story training academy for the annual ceremony of a new geisha year, the balconies were ringed with the faces of teachers, music masters and teahouse madams smiling as benignly at their charges as any proud...
With her eyes closed ecstatically, she gave them Hymne à l'Amour; then her gallant song of the Foreign Legion, Le Fanion de la Légion. By the time she had gotten through her prayerful Bonjour Monsieur Saint-Pierre and the piquant one that Piaf partisans will walk miles to hear -her own composition, La Vie en Rose, this time with a chorus in English-the fans were pounding their hands...
...petite, grey-haired women journalists had a date this week at Paris' Quai d'Orsay. With a glass of champagne and a kiss on each cheek from Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, they would be formally made knights of the Légion d'Honneur. For both Geneviève Tabouis, famed political columnist of France-Libre (circ. 115,000) and Janet Flanner, famed "Genêt" of the New Yorker, the kudos was overdue...
...Orsay while preparing to visit New York, "Genêt" decided to skip what she thought was just a social reception. When she walked in on New Yorker Editor Harold Ross in Manhattan a few days later, he greeted her sourly: "I see you have got the Légion d'Honneur, and I don't think too highly...