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...NICOLAS SCHÖFFER, 53, a Hungarian-born Parisian, builds Erector set-like perforated grids, convex mirrors and metal latticework. He views these not as art works but rather as the medium to express his vision of "spatiodynamics." His largest work to date is his 170-ft.-tall computerized Cybernetic Tower in Belgium, which emits sounds of street noises mixed with electronic music. Other works blink, twinkle, and swathe the space around them with elusive illuminations, sometimes changing 300 times a second like whirling dervishes of light...
...Parisian stores, which ten years ago had no U.S.-style decorations, have suddenly realized a few sprigs of holly and strings of lights can help part a Frenchman and his francs. The leader of the movement is Christian Dior. Each Dior window features a Christmas tree standing on a terrace at Versailles (that citadel of un-Christian morals). Inside, mannequins topped with Marie Antoinette hairdos and draped with Dior hostess gowns hold aloft model reindeer and-of all things-old sailing boats. From the ceiling hang huge plastic chandeliers, each of which took 300 hours to make. Said Decorator Jean...
Friend of the Family, based on a Parisian stage smash entitled Patate, tells of a nonentity whose nickname means "potato nose," or, more loosely, jerk. Thanks to his longtime enemy, a prominent financier, he has borne that unfortunate nom de pomme since childhood. He avenges himself at last when he learns that the banker is having an affair with his teen-age daughter...
Achtung! The Parisian windows flew open-there below "they" had returned. The street teemed with Wehrmacht uniforms, trucks and gunning motorcycles. Over in the Place de la Concorde the scene was even more incredible: U.S. Sherman tanks were grinding over the cobblestones, shooting it out with panzer units. On the He de la Cite, sandbags were piled up before cafes and Molotov cocktails exploded all around the Palais de Justice...
...past four months, Parisians have found themselves jolted right back into a bad dream as a Hollywood production unit has ground out the on-the-spot scenes for Is Paris Burning? The end is in sight, if Parisian nerves can stand up till then. This week, in perhaps the most chilling re-enactment of all, the Fiihrer himself confronts his Paris commandant, General Dietrich von Choltitz, and orders him-once he can no longer defend the City of Light -to leave it "nothing but a blackened field of ruins." The actor who plays Hitler, Billy Frick, is so exact...