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...economic planners has been provided with government funds to oversee development outside the capital. The results are visible, for example, in rapidly expanding port facilities at Dunkirk and Le Havre. Nowhere has life changed so much as along the western Riviera, where builders are hard at work on Fos-sur-Mer, a new port that will provide entry to a vast inland shipping route. By 1980, when dredging work along the Rhone and Rhine rivers is completed, vessels will be able to reach the North Sea from the Mediterranean via Fos, thus avoiding the long trip around the Iberian Peninsula...
Richard Brautigan sounds continually like a low-key Buddy Glass oriented to Big Sur rather than New York City. The stories in this book could be entries into a hip, West Coast Buddy's journal. They both have that funny way of describing the commonplace, and they give casual gestures the liveliness of dialogue. The two narrators share the same fanciful tone and Brautigan can go far with his fancy...
...jeuner sur l'Herbe (55), and Delacroix's The Women of Algiers (50), let alone the tedious parade of dwarfs, jesters, harlequins, Castilian grandees and copulating troglodytes that has been issuing from Mougins since 1969, survive in the world's attention for one reason alone: they have been painted by Picasso...
...Portrait of Madame H.P.-1952; 50. The Women of Algiers (after Delacroix)-1954; 51. Portrait of Sylvette David-1954; 52. Portrait of J.R. with Roses-1954; 53. Woman by a Window-1956; 54. Aries: The Arena in Front of the Rhone-1960; 55. Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe-1961; 56. The Artist and His Model-1963; 57. Rembrandt and Saskia-1963; 58. The Sabines-1963; 59. Femme Couchée-1964; 60. Tête d'Homme-1969; 61. Pierrot and Harlequin...
...portrayals of such tormented characters as the wounded Irish revolutionist in Odd Man Out (1947), Judy Garland's drink-sodden husband in A Star Is Born (1954) and Humbert Humbert in Lolita (1962); and Clarissa Kaye, 39, Australian actress; both for the second time; in Corseaux-sur-Vevey, Switzerland...