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That's not to say that he or the cave's curator, the prehistorian Jean-Michel Geneste, could have been entirely surprised. The previous spring, workers had finished installing a $28,000 air-conditioning system beneath the stairs leading down to the cave. The new machine represented a major change in the way Lascaux's delicate balance of temperature and humidity had been regulated for more than three decades. The old system, installed in 1968 after years of minute studies of the cave's climate, relied on Lascaux's natural currents to pass air over a cold point and ensure...
...project's main architect. Technical advice was provided by Ingéni, an air-systems consultancy firm based near Paris, which had designed systems for supermarkets and museums but had no experience with caves. "We proposed a system, and that's what they chose," says the firm's managing director, Michel de la Giraudičre. "I don't know why they favored an active system over a passive one, but I do know not everyone was of the same opinion. They wanted a certain efficacy, and the discussion was somewhat political...
...suggestion was that the French took Coppola's gaily revisionist view of 18th century history as an insult to their civic pride. But the French critics were mostly supporters of the film. Michel Ciment, the doyen of Positif magazine, and a member of a jury of critics convened by the daily Cannes edition of Screen International, gave Marie Antoinette four palms, the highest rating. The critic for Les Echoes called it "a superb film," and the one for Le Figaro said it was "prettily filmed." The French website Romandie.com pegged the Coppola movie, along with Pedro Almod...
...Greenwich Village lefties and generating tons of press attention in the process. Even better, the students might actually remember what got said at their commencement speech - which is more than I can say for Isaac Asimov, the late science fiction writer, who addressed my class at Columbia College, or Michel Sovern, the university president, who addressed the entire school. I have no idea what either talked about...
...frames of rampaging cattle. “Steady, As She Goes” is allusive and beautifully shot, but it lacks the whimsical playfulness of The White Stripes’ best videos. Perhaps Jarmusch is just more serious minded than the Stripes’ usual video director, Michel Gondry, or maybe that sense of fun was something that Meg brought to the table. Here’s to hoping that Meg isn’t out of the picture for good, because Jack and The Raconteurs could stand to lighten up a little. —Bernard L. Parham