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...formal structure. (And why not? Gershwin's concerto was one of the models for Ravel's Concerto in G, on which the ballet In G Major is set.) But if the Gershwin concerto is not a pro found work, it is still joyous jazz-age jeu d 'esprit that transcends its source - bringing honor to both George Gershwin and Jerome Robbins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Jazzing It Up at the Ballet | 2/15/1982 | See Source »

...sitting on a Transamerican 707. I have horrible diarrhea from eating pounds of fake camembert. I have told the D.E. that my grandfather is dying. I am going home two months early. I do not remember having seen the Jeu de Paummes Museum or the palais Royale or Les Invalides or Montmartre. Later. I will talk about them in detail and sound impressive...

Author: By Nancy F. Bauer, | Title: My Happy Summer in France | 3/17/1981 | See Source »

...daille de la Résistance for foiling Nazi plans to plunder European art during World War II. Valland recorded the destinations of thousands of appropriated paintings and sculptures, thus facilitating later recovery. She also managed to delay a whole trainload of art from leaving the Jeu de Paume in Paris until the city was liberated by Allied troops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 27, 1980 | 10/27/1980 | See Source »

...favorably compared with those of Vladimir Nabokov, Jasper Johns and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Even Leonardo da Vinci is hauled in to serve as an artistic ancestor. The aim of this coercive litany is to persuade doubters that Nauman is a home-grown successor to Marcel Duchamp, whose every pun and jeu d'esprit, no matter how limp, must be given the solemn study once reserved for Holy Writ. In short, Nauman has had the full treatment. Mount Culture labors, and out he pops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Vapid Wunderkind | 4/16/1973 | See Source »

...most part, however, Alan Arkin's first job of direction is marked by the conscientiousness and compassion that he has shown throughout his acting career. Arkin has stated that the films which he most admires are Renoir's Grande Illusion and Regle de Jeu; the latter film has obviously instructed him more than any American comedy could in the use of setting to explain character, and the need to root a danse macabre in thematic and dramatic progressions. Like the early Renoir, he is very much an actor's director, using his characters' figures and reactions to make comic points...

Author: By Michael Sracow, | Title: FilmsLittle Murdersat the Cheri | 3/22/1971 | See Source »

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