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...people in the nearby Riviera town of Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, the cavern is known as Le Trou du Tachou (the Badger's Hole). Hidden away on a Mediterranean hillside covered with olive trees and scrub oak, it was discovered in 1962 by a little girl looking for shiny stones for her collection. What subsequent explorers of the 16-ft. by 16-ft. grotto have found promises to be a great deal more significant: the habitat of the earliest known manlike creatures ever to dwell in Europe...
...wore diamonds in her hair. She had an affair with an incipiently bad novelist. She wore French dresses, she collected rubies. She let the painter John Singer Sargent chase her all over the gym at Groton, showed up at the Church of the Advent one Lenten Sunday to scrub the steps as penance for what followed...
History will decide whether Malraux is a novelist, art historian, political figure, or all three; at the very least he will be remembered as the man who scrubbed the monuments of Paris. "I had asked myself why Paris was so sad. The great architecture of Paris dates from the 17th and 18th-gay centuries. But the dirt had blacked out the shaded tones. When we washed them the colors reappeared. One day when I was Minister of Culture, General de Gaulle asked me how the cleaning was coming along. 'Famously,' I replied. 'Let me show...
...Danish architect, who drew his sketches without visiting Australia, was struck by photographs of the dark landscape and tangled foreshore scrub: "There is no white here to take the sun and make it dazzle the eyes-not like the Mediterranean or South America. So I had white in mind when I designed the Opera House. The final effect will at times resemble what we call Alpengluhen [alpenglow], the color you get on snowcapped mountains when the sun is setting, the beautiful pink and violet reflections from the combination of mat snow and shiny ice." The bouquet of shells, holding...
...which ended in the drowning of Mary Jo Kopechne). As Joe drove his open Jeep along winding Polpis Road through the island's sparsely populated interior one afternoon, the vehicle skidded out of control on a curve and flipped over, throwing all of its seven passengers into the scrub alongside the road...