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...Cabinet meetings, mysteriously leaked for publication to the small (circ. 25,000), feisty political weekly the Nation. And the magazine made the most it could of its news beat, trumpeting it on the first page of its first issue with a redesigned format. But the trouble was, as Editor Victor Navasky readily acknowledged, that the 205 pages of confidential documents were enough to "put readers to sleep...
...know just what inspired this remarkable group of etchings. Certainly the vast vaults derive from his study of Roman baths, the massive masonry perhaps from his childhood memories of Venice's sea walls. But down through time the Carceri have fascinated men as various as De Quincey, Coleridge, Victor Hugo and Aldous Huxley...
...offering freedom from paper work, a lighter-than-usual five-month load, and a blank check. A tall, slim, aristocratic man, Giulini is the rare maestro who is truly loved by his musicians. They may grumble about his perfectionism or his occasionally erratic tempi. But, says Victor Aitay, Chicago's co-concertmaster, "he approaches music as a religion, like the devoted Catholic he is. He feels his be lief so convincingly that it seems to us that this is the right way to play...
...very simple story, though told with needless complexity. Yet it does have a certain charm. Romy Schneider is extraordinarily attractive as the woman, and Victor Lanoux (of Cousin, Cousine) offers both stalwart charm and ideological reticence as the revolutionary. We are allowed to gather that what makes him more attractive than her husband, who is funnier and probably better company over the long haul, is that belief in something beyond oneself tends to make a fellow more exciting sexually. A dubious point, but sufficient for a movie which, like others written by Semprun (notably La Guerre Est Finie), insists that...
...chess fanatic," says Op Artist Victor Vasarely, a resident of Gordes in the South of France. So when Actor Curt Jurgens invited him for a few games at his villa in nearby Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Vasarely arrived with chess set in hand. And not just any old set. The artist himself had designed the Plexiglas board and chessmen. Says Vasarely modestly: "It is an immense pleasure for the eye." He now plans to sell signed and numbered copies of his creation. The price...