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Surprises Under the Grime. It took more than water. It took a long-ignored Second Empire decree signed by Napoleon III in 1852 requiring facades to be washed every ten years, and impassioned pressure from Minister of Culture André Malraux. In practice, the government rarely has to fine building owners, for landlords can ease the cost of cleaning by borrowing as much as 40% of the tab. Face-washing a private apartment house costs about $2,000. To clean the 18th century building in the Place de la Concorde that houses the Morgan Bank,* the Automobile Club of France...
...tapestried walls of his stuffy official residence. He has edited a first-rate anthology of French poetry, containing long excerpts from his favorites, Apollinaire and Baudelaire. With his blonde wife Claude, he seems most at home with such literary and show business types as André Malraux, Françoise Sagan, Bernard Buffet, Jeanne Moreau and, more recently, that long-legged U.S. newcomer, Jane Fonda. Summers, the Pompidous spend at St. Tropez with the bikini...
...people to be moved by art. As Venus reached Tokyo, French Critic Claude Roger-Marx wrote: "I am one of those people who believe that museums are not sim ply repositories and that masterpieces should not be condemned to immobility. They belong to all mankind." Minister of Culture Andre Malraux agreed. "To take a simple example," he said. "In Washington, poor women came with their children and approached the Mona Lisa with their eyes lowered, raised them to see it, then went into the crowd and came back again, as if seeing icons...
...almost pathologically afraid that Cambodia's neighbors, who destroyed the Khmer Empire and have encroached on Cambodian territory ever since, will crush his country completely unless he can make a deal with the most powerful nation in the area-Red China. He may have read André Malraux's The Royal Way, in which one character remarks: "Don't forget that the Khmer temples were built without cement. Like castles made of dominoes...
...balance their own ideas, students first spend a chastening year or more mastering the similar ideas ("fundamentals") of such great thinkers as Plato, Marx, Tolstoy and Shakespeare. Tutors supervise the work, which is often livened by such guest lecturers as T. S. Eliot, André Malraux, Marc Chagall and Jacques Maritain. To check doctoral theses for accuracy, the committee calls in outside scholars who know the field. To combat jargon, "lay readers" with no expertise make sure that all theses are "interesting and comprehensible to any cultivated person...