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There's a song on AM radio just now that breathes ecstatically about "Southern Nights" just now when summer looks when it might be making a final long-awaited appearance but if you are a properly brought up culture-vulture you will probably go for Hector Berlioz's "Nuits d'Ete." Janet Bedell, mezzosoprano, and Robert Cohen, pianist, will present this recital in Holmes Hall Living Room...
...assuring each of these dupes that he is to be the sole heir, Sly's nimbly resourceful servant, Simon Able (Hector Elizondo), levies a handsome tribute in the form of anticipatory payments of one sort and another against the presumed inheritance...
...life of art nouveau was short, about two decades; its climax was the turn of the century, in 1900. But in that brief time the look of Western capitals-and especially their bourgeois interiors-was utterly transformed by architects led by Victor Horta and Hector Guimard, designer of the Paris Metro entrances; poster artists like Privat Livemont and Alphonse Mucha; designers of jewelry like René Lalique; glassmakers and ceramists like Louis Comfort Tiffany, Emile Gallé and Felix Bracquemond. A new style of luxury art, the last great mannerism, had been found. Because of a hostility to "applied...
Open Rebellion. The leftists also gleefully watched as Giscard's customary supporters attacked the new tax idea for precisely the opposite reason: that it was too radical. Proclaimed Gaullist Deputy Hector Rolland: "This bill should be thrown into the oubliette, from which it should never have escaped." Worst of all, from Giscard's standpoint, Gaullist Premier Jacques Chirac maintained a conspicuous silence during the entire controversy, apparently trying to distance himself from the unpopular tax measure...
...murder was the third in a grisly series of spectacular political killings that have tainted the nation-saving image won by Argentina's military junta in their virtually bloodless ouster of the incompetent Isabel Peron last March. Three weeks ago, two former Uruguayan legislators, Zelmar Michelini and Hector Gutierrez Ruiz, were seized in separate commando-style raids. Their bodies were found four days later in an abandoned car, together with the corpses of two other Uruguayans who had earlier been involved with the Tupamaro guerrillas...