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...Gaullists were not altogether happy either. The new government does not include a single close ally of Jacques Chirac, the newly elected mayor of Paris who trounced Michel d'Ornano, Giscard's personal choice for the job. Giscard did his best to gloss over this humiliating loss. When Chirac was formally presented at the Elysée as "Monsieur le Maire de Paris," the President graciously responded, "Et cher ami" (and dear friend). Later Chirac tried to cool tempers at a meeting of Gaullist parliamentarians, many of whom had been openly derisive of Giscard. "We will be loyal...
...Manessier and Jean Bazaine, who had in the past drawn much of their visual language from Chartres's windows and had worked in stained glass themselves. The Viacryl coating, they charged, had ruined the transmission of light through the windows, shifted the color balance and, with its plastic gloss, canceled the irregular luminosity of the hand-cast glass. "I know what I see," says Bazaine. "Those windows, they were living. I have been looking at them for the past 50 years. Now they have no heart. Once they had depth and modulation; now they are flat, and the light...
Despite the self-consciousness that hampers it, the movie is impressive in its gloss and technical accomplishment. Film is inherently an effective tool for the mystery genre, and Ross handles it with artistry, capturing all the richness of detail and scene that fall within its purview. The camera models Holmes himself. In the movie's opening, a demented Holmes speeds across Europe in pursuit of Moriarty. He leaves London's Victoria Station with its throngs of people and loud, smoke-bellowing engines and passes into the gleaming green Austrian countryside. With his bloodhound Toby on the scent of Moriarty...
...pure chance?or, some say, typically astute Ludwig intelligence?the Jari property also turned out to contain a rich deposit of kaolin, a clay used in making coatings for high-gloss paper. Huge earth-moving machines are now gouging the white stuff out of an enormous open pit mine and feeding it into a $23 million processing plant that started up two months...
...Kansas City's Nelson Gallery of Art, is not an anthropologist but an art historian who uncovered the 850 artifacts in obscure collections from South Dakota to south Bavaria. The exhibit, which has been praised by London's art critics, is loosely organized by geography, with scholarly gloss held to a welcome minimum. Prehistoric stone carvings from the southeastern forests immortalize a puma or a hawk in onyx and a snake in a slithering s of shiny mica. The ochers and sharp abstractions of the Southwest desert dominate the region's basketwork and pottery...