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...best collections of modern paintings (new acquisitions include a fascinatingly fearsome Dog by Britain's Francis Bacon); a show of postwar European photography; a specialized exhibit showing the 100-year evolution of the modern chair, from the first bentwood model to the tubular-steel jobs of Marcel Breuer and Le Corbusier to the most recent design, which goes right back to bentwood. If the visitor insists, he can even find that air-conditioned movie in the basement, where old film classics are shown (this week: Ernst Lubitsch's Trouble in Paradise...
Stories in the Modern Manner. A soft-cover collection of 14 hard-shelled short stories, by such highbrow authors as Alberto Moravia and Marcel Aymé. Good and reasonably clean fun (TIME...
Stories in the Modern Manner. A soft-cover collection of 14 hard-shelled short stories, by such highbrow authors as Alberto Moravia and Marcel Aymé. Good, and reasonably clean, fun (TIME...
Crossing Paris, the first and longest tale, is by Marcel Ayme, a deft ironist who likes to pare the French mind and character like an apple. This time, in a story which takes place during the German occupation, he cuts a little deeper. Two thugs, Martin and Grandgil, are hired by a black-marketeer to tote four valises filled with meat across the city. Grandgil, a newcomer to the racket, is supposed to take orders from Martin, but right from the start he shows a shocking lack of honor. By threatening to expose the black-marketeer, he gets...
...first expedition to the Pierre Saint-Martin, in 1951, discovered two enormous caves and a river below, the 1,000-ft. perpendicular descent into the mountain chimney. Lured on a second expedition into the hole last year as the official photographer, Tazieff saw French Speleologist Marcel Louberis fall from a snapped cable and break his back on the rocks below. Thirty-six hours later, with reporters and photographers swarming around the entrance to the hole and the world waiting for news, the suspense drama of the year ended tragically as Loubens died (TIME...