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...Jean-Paul Sartre...
...months of the German Occupation in 1944, the young man who was to become France's most controversial contemporary philosopher and the woman who was to become its most controversial feminist met the professional criminal who was to become its most controversial playwright. "The conversation was most agreeable," said Jean-Paul Sartre. Last week, nearly six years after Sartre's death, his longtime companion Simone de Beauvoir, 78, died of a lung ailment. The next day Jean Genet, 75, succumbed to throat ! cancer. Said Premier Jacques Chirac, inarguably...
...often the hardest kind of criticism to do convincingly. But there is something of the fashion dictator in her as well. Armani is described with appropriate accuracy and awe, but he is the only Milanese included. Ignored as well are whole ranks of French headliners, including Claude Montana and Jean-Paul Gaultier, and the British radical Vivienne Westwood, a perennial darling of the fashion press...
...several incarnations in many languages, but Art Historian Jean-Paul Bouillon presents the movement under its best-known name in Art Nouveau (Rizzoli; 247 pages; $60). Some 350 illustrations, 125 of them in color, trace its genealogy from the 1870s to the outbreak of World War I, a journey that manages to bridge 19th century formalism and Bauhaus severity. Although Tiffany's lamps and Gaudi's facades are archetypal examples of art nouveau, the author widens artistic horizons, and readers' eyes, by demonstrating that fine artists from Whistler to Picasso were influenced by its rhythmic, serpentine style...
...light as if it were in the process of tormenting them. Although the scenario is funny and somewhat chilling the first time through, our interest soon truns to boredom as the dialogue is replayed, for we have finally understood that this is nothing more than a bad version of Jean-Paul Satre's No Exit. This kind of theater belongs in the Experimental Theater at the Loeb. On the Mainstage, it is a waste of time and space, not to mention the otherwise effective voices of the entombed...