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Finding hot new competitors to serve as skiing billboards is a long-term job. The makers of France's Rossignol skis employ teams of scouts who follow the racing circuits looking for potential stars. Austrian manufacturers provide free gear to nearly 600 promising youths, some under the age of ten. Comments Christl Haas, a gold-medal winner in the 1964 Innsbruck Games: "These toddlers all have at least three pairs of skis and a company representative to wipe their noses...
...imaginary seaside town of Zanzibar in Poulenc's Les Mamelles de Tirésias; Matisse again for the blazing and mysterious red-and-blue moonlit garden in Ravel's L 'Enfant et les Sortilèges; Chinese vase painting for Stravinsky's Le Rossignol...
Drawings for the theater are usually felt to be in a subclass of their own. They are incomplete notes. Who could deduce from Hockney's brisk studies for the mechanical bird in Le Rossignol, for instance, the surprise of its actual intrusion on the stage of the Met, a blazing vermilion-and-gilt apparition in that gauzy, lyric ambiance of K'ang-Hsi porcelain blue? The drawing just looks like a canary on a toy red cart. Yet ingenuity can bridge many gaps, and Hockney is nothing if not ingenious...
...both baseball and basketball in high school, Mayotte always though he'd have a professional tennis career. His decision to quit Stanford has turned out to be profitable. Last year Mayotte earned $130,000 in prize money on the tour and reaped an additional income from his contracts with Rossignol, Peugeot, and Adidas...
...perceive social relationships," reducing French society to three groups--those who like to lead others, those who hate or resent their boss, and those who opt out of the hierarchical system. The Duc de Brissac's "aristocratic" qualities are as easily found in M. Perrin, a worker in the Rossignol Ski Factory in Voiron, or in M. Cazeau, an engineer from Toulouse...