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...most startling images in the expressionist cinema and in the sublime renderings of the American architect Hugh Ferriss, the Piranesi of the skyscraper age. But it also turns up in projects that were, however nominally, designed for the real world, like the huge pink mastabas of the "Metropolis" that Henri Sauvage hoped to raise beside the Seine...
...building reserves through careful investments to cover eventual payouts. Instead he built the company with sizzle and flash, turning in the 1980s to the high- yield junk bonds sold by Drexel Burnham's Michael Milken. Of Executive Life's $10.1 billion in assets, $6.4 billion is junk. Says Henri Bersoux, a spokesman for the American Council of Life Insurance: "No other company of that size or larger has invested so much of its assets in high-yield bonds." As the junk-bond market fizzled in 1989, First Executive reported a stunning $859 million write-down in its portfolio...
...without the security of her liberal, upper- middle-class background, the way of life the revolution mercilessly crushed. She was the adored child of a rich Moscow textile merchant, whose money enabled her to go to Paris in 1913 and study under those secondary Cubists, Jean Metzinger and Henri le Fauconnier. Even her student work -- the big studio nudes in a Cubist idiom represented in the show -- has striking analytic toughness. Its painted planes, jutting and curling in imagined space, become literal in 1915: painted cardboard still-life sculptures inspired by Archipenko...
...Henri Troyat, a member of the prestigious French Academy, charged that the omission would "disfigure the soul of a word." Book editor Yves Berger bemoaned the loss "of this marvelous chapeau de gendarme ((policeman's hat))." The brouhaha grew worse over the past two weeks as more members of the academy openly broke with the majority who voted for Rocard's reform last May, and it is possible they may force another vote. The academy will discuss the issue at its Thursday meeting this week, and if it recants, the government will have to think again...
...FAUVE LANDSCAPE by Judi Freeman (Abbeville; $65). From 1904 to 1908, a group of painters changed the history of modern art. Their startling palettes and images are celebrated by an authority who agrees with one of them, a painter named Henri Matisse: "Fauve painting is not everything, but it is the foundation of everything...