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Married. Jeanne Moreau, 49, protean femme fatale of French cinema (Jules and Jim, La Lumiere); and American Movie Director (The French Connection, The Exorcist) William Friedkin, 37; she for the second time, he for the first; in a brief civil ceremony in Paris. Moreau has been writing a book and a screenplay in the south of France while Friedkin, in Mexico, has directed The Sorcerer...
...always feel the best way to do a story is to get involved," says Jim Hartz, traveling co-host of the Today show. Which is why he allowed A.L. Blanton, mayor of Plains, Ga., to do a Samson number on Hartz's hair. Since the protean Blanton also works as a barber-and local air traffic controller-Hartz figured one way to conduct an interview with the mayor was under the clippers. When Hartz got back home to New York, his regular hair stylist flipped his lid, condemning the job as "lopsided" and pointing out "there...
...trash can. "A protean genius," Art Historian Robert Rosenblum calls him. "Every artist after 1960 who challenged the restrictions of painting and sculpture and believed that all of life was open to art is indebted to Rauschenberg ? forever...
...light: "Blue poplar. Blue palm ... the blue lucy is a healing plant. Blue John is skim milk. Blue backs are Confederate bills. Blue bellies are yankee boys." He squints at past authorities on physics (Democritus, Aristotle, Galen), the bet- ter to glimpse the essence of this protean color in the corner of an eye. The mystery remains, more mysterious because Gass so thoroughly exposes its complexities. Yet the humanist does not visit nature for facts but for creative suggestions, and these Gass offers in abun- dance: "Blue is the color of the mind in borrow of the body...
Precisely this protean quality, however, causes many businessmen to take a wait-and-see position. Says Philip Bogue, president of the Portland (Ore.) Chamber of Commerce and a Republican: "I think there is a more positive attitude here that businessmen could live with a Democrat in the White House-assuming Carter clarifies some of his positions...