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Magic Flutist. By far his most thrilling public work was the commission, assigned him by France's Minister of Culture André Malraux, to redecorate the ceiling at the Paris Opera. This vast pantheon to music swirls with 2,153 sq. ft. of ballet dancers, firebirds and blossoms banked like clouds in hot Midi colors that triumph over the surrounding Second Empire gilt moldings (TIME, Nov. 6). In the mural he painted the face of his old friend Malraux-the gesture of a Renaissance artist paying homage to his patron. But as a grateful adopted son of France, Chagall...
...WINNERS by Julio Corfazar. 374 pages. Pantheon...
That night the urn was placed on an old armored car, and, illuminated by flaming torches and moving to the funereal roll of drums, the cortege passed between silent crowds bundled against the cold. All lights on the mile-long route to the Pantheon were extinguished. One cafe attempted business as usual with gas lamps, but police entered and blew them out. The colonnaded Pantheon was also dark, but brilliant tricolor searchlights cast a V up into the sky. As a military band played civil servant. When the Nazis arrived in Chartres on June 17, 1940, Jean Moulin met them...
Sense of History. Before last week's reburial at the Pantheon, Moulin's remains had rested for two decades at Pere-Lachaise cemetery, and there were some skeptics who wondered at Charles De Gaulle's long delay in recognizing Moulin's great wartime contribution. Some saw the ceremony as designed to inaugurate De Gaulle's presidential campaign. But there come moments in France when political passion and factional rivalry are briefly overshadowed by a sense of history and literature. One such occurred when Andre Malraux, De Gaulle's Minister of Cultural Affairs and leading...
Other goddesses are slimmer, and some have prominent navels. One is spraddled against the wall with her navel painted in concentric circles like a target-a treatment that Dr. Mellaart thinks shows concern with the continuity of life. Male gods are not common in the Çatal Hiiyuk pantheon, and those that have survived are generally shown riding on a small creature that Dr. Mellaart says is a bull...