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...brusque disjunctures of color that de Kooning loads on it. Time and again, one is brought up short by a reflection that never occurs in the presence of his work from the '40s and '50s: that these paintings do not al ways prove their necessity, and their joie de vivre comes close to rodomontade. But his defects are still those of a major artist, and against them must be set the fact, which every part of the show proclaims, of de Kooning's large and affirmative ambitions. Here entropy, the normal condition of the art world today...
...fervent believers in republican principles of equality. But that does not mean that their friends in the chorus, when dressed alike, have to act alike too. Shipley J. Munson and Jane Gitschier are consistent exceptions--the former by his air of zany snootiness, the latter by her charming joie de vivre...
...Paris suburb of La Courneuve-a uniquely Gallic blend of gourmet food, Marxist rhetoric and midway attractions. Nearly 9,300 new members were signed up during the two-day Red fete, which was attended by 1.5 million people. Boasted one party recruiter: "Ours is a Communism with joie de vivre...
...optimism was premature. By week's end fete had turned into fiasco and joie into tristesse for the Communists. A long-awaited summit meeting of Socialist, Communist and Radical Party leaders was abruptly halted by a strident, embarrassingly public dispute over the common program-the parties' joint campaign platform for the March 1978 elections...
Indeed, the once serious world of haute couture, seemingly oblivious to the voices that have prophesied its doom, sparkles with youth and joie devivre. This in spite of the fact that most of the designers are taking their inspiration from bygone eras and remote cultures. But if the collections last week are any indication, a remembrance of fashions and times past, translated into the present with bravura, can itself make history -or at least contemporary magic...