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...young men in hooded sweatshirts go by rapper tags--Spion, El Pach, Benou and K-Soc--and like thousands of others from the grimy, soulless apartment blocks that ring France's big cities, they were out cruising the mean streets of Paris' banlieues, or suburbs, last week. Near the city hall of Bobigny, a rough town on the northeastern outskirts of Paris, a circle of fire marked where a trash container had been set alight to provoke a police patrol. "People mix it up with the police every day around here," says Spion, 19, who is of Moroccan origin...
...Warner Pach, President, Gillette Safety Razor...
...small business in a strange country is far tougher than setting up one in the U.S., where the failure rate is high enough even without the resentment from foreign competitors that the American abroad often faces. Nonetheless, the appeal of setting up business overseas is undeniable. Says Peter Pach, who went to Italy to break into opera as a basso and stayed to set up an auto dealership catering to tourists in Rome: "In Italy, I have a somewhat unique position. In America, I would be just another car dealer...
...throwing himself out of a window during the time it takes him to fall from the fourth floor to the ground, you will never be able to do the big stuff." Yet he was above all the master of color who raised it, as the late Walter Pach said, "from an accessory to a completely expressive role"-from prop, that is, to performer...
...Gogh's work enthralled me." he wrote, "I met the sculptor Lehmbruck and secured some of his sculptures, also works by Munch." In The Hague, he saw works by Odilon Redon for the first time; then he went to Paris, where he teamed up with Painter Walter Pach and also wired Davies to come over and help him. The Americans "practically lived in taxicabs." They met the brothers Duchamp-Villon and the dealer Ambroise Vollard. They persuaded Constantin Brancusi to make his U.S. debut in their show, arranged for paintings by Braque and Picasso...