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...coups or attempted coups, often accompanied by assassination. But what happened last week in Bangkok was not a coup d'état, nor even a coup de main, coup de Jarnac, coup de grâce, coup de maitre, coup de pied or a coup d'oeil. Searching for the trenchant Gallic phrase to describe Strongman Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat's apparent coup against himself, the best that observers could manage was coup de repos, i.e., a move that leaves the main features of a situation unchanged but also puts opponents at a disadvantage...
...centuries-old farmhouse outside Barcelona, Spanish Surrealist Painter-Sculptor Joan Miró and Potter Josep Llorens-Artigas three years ago embarked on one of the strangest pottery-sculpture adventures since the ancient Zapotecs cooled their kilns. As Artigas described the process to the French art review L'Oeil, "Miró had collected objects over the years . . . an empty sardine can flattened by a truck, odd pieces of cork, rubber, glass, rocks . . . These chance encounters became sculptural elements to be translated into pottery." Artigas and his 18-year-old son would shape these elements in clay; Miró would...
Paris, the world's most powerful art magnet, is still pulling young painters and sculptors from all over the world. What do they find when they get there? To spell out the economic facts of life, Paris' art monthly L'Oeil poked into studios and galleries, combed the artists' hangouts for facts and figures. Its findings, published this month, considerably deflate the traditional happy-go-lucky view of la vie en rose...
...such a windfall is still the exception to the rule. "The number of those who give up is enormous," L'Oeil finds. "We have to admit it: the Gauguins have always been the exceptions . . . The cozy apartment, the car, the refrigerator have killed many careers...
...courts where secret tape recordings were made of juries in action as part of a study on how juries arrive at their decisions. The outcry looks like a crusade for the rights of man at first, but on closer scrutiny seems to be nothing more than a trompe d'oeil on the part of those who have made inquisition their specialty, by which they turn the national distaste for wire-tapping to their own account...