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...noble aim, this idea that man-made things should follow nature's masterpiece and that all objects, whether a ring or a house, should have an organic relationship to each other. But to live with art nouveau came to be like living in a world of peacock tails; it was not so much art as an empty, if dazzling, embellishment. In the end, Mucha himself turned away from it and spent the last years of his life in the Castle Zbirov in Bohemia, working on a series of academic pictures portraying the history of his people...
...Lawrence's educational philosophy. As long as any semblance of a dialogue continues to dominate the school's policy, this will be so. Yet the relationship may be artificial, not to say harmful for both man and girl. As Swados commented, "no teacher can avoid feeling like a stuffed peacock after a while with all those girls sitting at his feet, cherishing every word...
...Beau Séjour. There will be no séjour today, however; on the hotel's door a tiny sign reads: "Closed for vacation." In another of Sivard's pictures, a Parisian nun is emerging from a Metro station with the frosted-glass peacock's fan of the canopy forming a sort of art nouveau halo behind the good sister's head...
...Cupid and psycho, and Gozzi is a born actress with big brown eyes and a pretty little finger to wrap fathers around. And it is composed with surprising finesse-Director Serge Bourguignon, who at 31 had never before made a full-length film, makes images as surely as a peacock makes feathers...
Thus encouraged, Detroit went all-out at its auto show. Virtually every car and truck model produced by any U.S. automaker was on display. Fashion models slouched along a runway beside a 30-ft. revolving tower. Pontiac lined the doors of its Bonneville convertible with peacock feathers, and Dodge dressed up its truck display with two feminine "truck drivers" in short, short shorts. (Stock question from male showgoers: "Do you come with the truck?" Stock answer: "You couldn't afford...