Word: les
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Both Vallieres and Gagnon were to spend almost four years in prison without bail, becoming recognized in that time as political prisoners. While in the Manhattan Detention Center, known as the "Tombs", Vallieres had written a book Les Negres Blancs d'Amerique (The White Niggers of America). It was to be used as evidence against him for charges that pre-dated the book. Despite numerous legal manipulations the Canadian government was able to obtain few convictions against the two men, but these convictions were reversed in the Court of Appeals...
...think it good because it made us possible. But Monet did not labor for the sake of Philip Guston or Sam Francis. His actual greatness resides in the way in which he marked, and then transcended, his own cultural perimeter. He provoked Impressionism rather as Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon provoked Cubism; and the crucial encounter here was with an older painter, Eugene-Louis Boudin, whom he met somewhere around...
...current battle over destruction of the pavilions involved aesthetics rather than traditions. This time the conservationists were interested in saving what they consider to be the city's prime example of exquisite early ironwork. Les Halles were designed by Architect Victor Baltard, working with Baron Georges Eugene Haussmann, the city planner who created much of modern Paris. Baltard's first pavilion, shaped in stone, was so gross that Napoleon III personally ordered it torn down. The Emperor told Haussmann: "I want big umbrellas. Nothing more." The baron told Baltard to try iron, and this time he caught...
Center of Culture. Beyond the architectural controversy, there was another facet to the debate. When the fishmongers and vegetable sellers moved out of Les Halles, artists and entrepreneurs moved in, offering everything from avant-garde theater and Marxist book shows to pop concerts, films, art exhibits, puppet shows and flea markets. The fish pavilion has become, of all things, a roller rink. In all, 2,000,000 people have visited the transformed market...
...conservationists had a particularly strong point. Already the quais along the Seine are disappearing behind riverfront expressways; part of the Tuileries Gardens are to be dug up for an underground telephone exchange; and the skyline of Montparnasse has been scarred by high-rises. Next week, the bulldozing of Les Halles is scheduled to begin, and the city intends to keep riot police on guard to prevent squatters from impeding the wreckers. Unless there is an unforeseen reprieve, Paris will sacrifice another of its 19th century accomplishments for 20th century expedience...