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Chain-smoking as always, Quebec Premier René Lévesque perched on the edge of an easy chair in the annex to his Quebec City office as he talked with TIME Ottawa Bureau Chief John M. Scott and Staff Writer George Russell. Excerpts from the interview...
...René Veaux, 40, chef of the classic Parisian restaurant Lasserre: "Don't do too much. Concentrate on one plat. One person cooking at home cannot pay attention to too many things. She or he will become lost. If a woman makes three dishes, she will get nervous on the first, the second will suffer and the third will be a disaster...
...Playful physics" was the way René Magritte somewhat disdainfully characterized the trompe 1'oeil style of painting. But the term could apply to his own oblique surrealism. Rings plunging through pianos, airborne castles, flaming keys and animated bottles are all part of the artist's whimsical, gravity-free universe. Magritte: Ideas and Images by Harry Torczyner (Abrams; 277 pages; $45) provides an opulent but ambiguous visual festival. The artist, half magician, half charlatan, paints with paperback Freud insights and melodramatic compositions so calculating that he sometimes makes Norman Rockwell appear primitive. Yet in the midst...
...DIED. René Goscinny, 51, creator of Astérix, France's most popular comic strip; of a heart attack; in Paris. Astérix, a diminutive Gaul, was a spokesman for all the shrewd little guys who fearlessly take on bigger adversaries-not for ideological reasons but in order to be able to eat, drink and be merry. Three weeks before he died, Goscinny realized his dream of being syndicated...
...taxes than a brand new house of lesser quality. Some districts, such as Cook County, Ill., and Fulton County, Ga., are attempting to eliminate the imbalance by taxing all homes at their current "fair market value," but then taxes explode and devastate longtime residents living on fixed incomes. Says Ren Wicks, 65, who, as a result of a $4,000 annual property tax bite, is now struggling to make ends meet on his Los Angeles home: "They told me that if I worked hard and was a good citizen, I could make it in this country. They were wrong. They...