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...Jean-Philippe Lachenaud, director of architecture for the Ministry of the Environment, was put in charge of the plans. Michel Laclotte, the Louvre's head curator of painting -- and, as such, the key influence in the "Louvre system," which controls the distribution of government-owned works of art throughout France -- became head curator of Orsay as well. "I had to wear two hats," Laclotte recalls, "and sometimes it gave me a headache." For the Louvre is by nature a monopoly, with the gravitational pull of a black hole. So many of the canonical masterpieces of the 19th century -- Delacroix...
News Editor For This Issue: Matthew A. Saal '87 Night Editors: Martha A. Bridegam '89 Kristin A. Goss '87 Jonathan M. Moses '88 Sophia A. van Wingerden '89 Sports Editors: Jonathan F. Putnam '88 Geoffrey H. Simon '89 Editorial Editor: John N. Ross '87 Photo Editor: D. Jean Guth '88 Business Editor: John P. Siracuse '87 Copy Editor: Julie E. Gibbons...
...cast that includes Ryan O'Neal as Madden, Isabella (Blue ; Velvet) Rossellini as his smoldering old flame and Newcomer Debra Sandlund as his estranged spouse. It is part of a two-picture deal Mailer has with Cannon films; the other part, already completed, was to write a screenplay for Jean- Luc Godard's King Lear...
When Suburban Parisians Jean-Francois and Catherine Mayaux ordered a Minitel plugged into their telephone line 18 months ago, they planned to use the toaster-size computer console as an electronic telephone directory. But they soon found the Minitel terminal equally convenient for paying bills, purchasing airline tickets and making theater reservations. Lately they have started shopping a la modem, issuing on-line orders for everything from foie gras to fine wines. "Each wine has a numeric code," explains Mayaux, as if buying a Burgundy electronically were the most natural thing in the world. "We punch it into the Minitel...
...biggest target is the U.S., where most of the millions of personal- computer owners have yet to use their machines for telecommunications. "The American market is potentially enormous," says Jean-Louis Fourtanier, whose Paris-based CTL Telematique has formed a partnership with Baseline, a New York City data service, to provide a selection of Minitel offerings in the U.S. Earlier this month, Baseline hooked up a 64-channel telephone link to France that for $10 an hour will permit stateside subscribers to tap into news reports from Liberation and feature stories from the magazine L'Evenement du Jeudi. Says Fourtanier...