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Because of the light-the shattering clarity that had seduced so many artists-Painter Marc Chagall in 1950 left Paris to live on the Riviera. Last week Chagall, now 79, said merci to the land of azure waters with a $2,000,000 gift: 17 major oils and 50 gouaches and watercolors, representing much of his last twelve years' work, which will be housed in a government-financed Chagall museum in Nice. When it is completed in 1968, the memorial will take its place beside the Riviera's three other museums dedicated to modern masters: Picasso...
Other than the Mustang, the best performers this year are sporty intermediate-size models and some luxury cars. The fastest risers-Chevelle, Chevy II, Tempest, Riviera, Fairlane, Lincoln, Belvedere, Coronet-were all restyled for '66. The largest numerical declines have been among some of Detroit's big, bread-and-butter cars-the Plymouth Fury, the standard Ford and G.M.'s Chevrolet. All of them had simply been face-lifted for '66, but they will be completely restyled for '67, thus may fare better...
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...white stripes, checks, or combinations of both. Just for fun, some glasses come armed with roll-up awnings and huge fake eyelashes; others sport spectacular papier-mâché designs glued on to the frames; still others have movable lenses that lift up into a coy wink. In Riviera's new one-way mirror models, the lenses also are decorated; the wearer looks out through a patterned blur, the onlooker is greeted with his own checkered reflection...
...gigantic concrete mixer. It had a familiar look, a return to the big, brash scene of the 1930s marathon dance halls, and on opening night some 2,000 invited guests pushed through the door of the Broadway and 53rd Street site known to their parents as the Riviera Terrace and, before that, the Arcadia Ballroom...