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...Malraux went to work for Charles de Gaulle. As Minister of Culture, he gave Paris a new luster by ordering its grimy buildings scrubbed and floodlit. More important, he brought a new glow to French cultural life-at least on its façade-by his grand subsidies to the arts and, most of all, by his personal distinction. Still to many a former leftist admirer, his acceptance of a government post amounted to a sellout of his principles. "How can you hear me now, Andre Malraux?" asked Film Director Jean-Luc Godard. "I am telephoning from the outside...
Modern sculpture itself made it in evitable. Alexander Calder's vivid mo biles were meant to jiggle and gyrate under the leaves, George Rickey's feathery kinetics to stir in the breeze. To be sure, bronze and marble for centuries have gained in luster and patina from exposure to the weather, but a whole new range of materials, notably stain less steel and plastics, practically demand the reflective brilliance of sun shine. "Aluminum shines wonderfully against the greens of summer and the greys of winter," observes New York Collector Robert Scull...
...Marylou uses the silver cups and platters won by the Whitney racing stable for everything from caviar to sherbet. The same goes for the jewelry that Sonny loves to collect. As a result, Marylou has been a stunning adornment to every ball she has attended. Adding a special luster is the 1,900-diamond tiara, once the property of Empress Elizabeth of Austria, which she likes to wear for specially grand occasions, such as the opening of the Metropolitan Opera...
...time. The area is thawed each time with a salt solution to unstick the probe and eye, which freeze together after the fashion of a finger on an ice tray. After the thaw, the entire procedure is repeated twice more. In early cases, the eye should regain its normal luster in four days, with little pain either during or after the treatment...
...collected the 500th of his career, thereby becoming the sixth player in history to achieve the mark.* And Roberto Clemente of the Pittsburgh Pirates celebrated the approach of summer by driving in seven runs in one game against the Cincinnati Reds, with a double and three home runs. The luster of that feat was only somewhat dimmed by the fact that the Reds themselves pounded out 13 hits, including four doubles and a homer, and won the game...