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Ordinarily, the Paris-Match building crackles with Gallic electricity as Europe's best-paid, most buoyant journalists exclaim over their latest exploits, argue about politics and shout out the window to pretty girls who preen in a cafe across the street in the hope that they may get their pictures in the magazine. But last week a heavy silence settled on Paris-Match. Staffers moved listlessly, speaking in low, conspiratorial whispers. An idle copy boy watched over the managing editor's office while its usual occupant, Andre Lacaze, appeared at the entrance to the building, waving an envelope...
...plumages are changing so fast that the lads hardly have time to preen their feathers any more. Now it's the Gaucho look-or at least it is for Rudolf Nureyev, 30. Not that Rudi is all that wild about horses. It's just that he has this gas about things South American; so naturally that led to an Yves St. Laurent Argentine pony-skin jacket to set off a dashing pair of matching boots by Paris' Roger Vivier. Gaucho Rudi wears the getup whenever the mood strikes him, as with Dame Margot Fonteyn and Princess Margaret...
...VIRTUOSO FLUTE (Antonio Janigro conducting I Solisti di Zagreb; Vanguard). Cleveland-born Julius Baker plays the Telemann Suite in A Minor for Flute and Strings in sensitive partnership with the chamber ensemble of soloists from Zagreb. Telemann gives the flute seven chances to preen and prance beside the violins, in an Italian air, some minuets, a polonaise...
Treiman's enthusiasm has been shared by others. She has garnered 18 awards and four fellowships, including a 1963 Ford Foundation grant. She has become engrossed in sculpture as well, turns out tiny bronzes that prance, preen and posture with all the assurance of statuary weighing tons. By combining her small bronzes with her oils, she hopes to make a synthesis between the daydream illusion of oils and the rocky reality of sculpture. Like her oils, her metal figurines capture strikingly the singular event, the particular human being. "These for me," says Joyce Treiman, "are a summing...
...happens to be a form of boudoir bingo that has already alienated the wife's best friend and driven the husband's auto-racing teammate to suicide. This time out, they notice a lissome young schoolteacher. The wife befriends the girl, brings her home, immediately begins to preen her as a morsel to renew hubby's flagging appetite for l'amour...