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Like ants with headlights, the cars turn off Sunset and Wilshire and pour into the University of California at Los Angeles, their drivers stoically paying the 50? automobile admission fee that U.C.L.A. charges to discourage overcrowding the 411-acre campus with cars. Out of the cars stream 9,500 night students, who head across the campus for courses that range from modern Armenian to thermal management of spacecraft. Along with the students come some 300,000 culture-minded visitors a year to such events as a film series on the supernatural, or a superb new production of Measure for Measure...
...Mondrian saw it-continued. For many years he filled some of his rectangles with primary color. But in time Mondrian came to feel that these rectangular planes were too dominating and would somehow have to be destroyed. His solution was to drain the color from the rectangle and pour it into the lines. The unhampered play between the verticals and horizontals then seemed to produce a kind of rhythm, a "dynamic equilibrium" that was like the pulse of life...
Jackie Kennedy refuses to be falsely humble. She wore her apricot dress and coat of silk and linen to speak to farmers in a Venezuelan barnyard. She declines to honor all the petty requests that pour into the White House, ignores most of the President's political rallies, turns down invitations from women's groups who are constantly nagging her for an appearance. She water-skis, rides, plays golf, and yet remains an attentive mother to her children...
Secession swelled his ego. Elisabethville is plastered with Tshombe portraits distributed by his aides; they are usually emblazoned with a slogan: "II sotiffre pour vous; soyez digne de lui [He is suffering for you; be worthy...
Ever since she came to Paris for a premiére in 1951, Italy's earthy Anna Magnani has lived, between films, in semiseclusion on the Left Bank. But for the glittering opening of the Lido's latest braless whizbang, Pour Vous, Anna made the Seine in the unlikely company of Shirley MacLaine. Though the moody Roman appeared to regard the proceedings with dyspeptic disdain, the eupeptic Shirley purred: "Miss Magnani was always one of my favorite actresses, and when we met in 1954, she became one of my favorite people...