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Last week the prestigious Brussels-based Commission of the European Economic Community added its official O.K. After an examination of the ner vous state of sterling and the problems of the British economy, the commission concluded that no technical or economic barriers stand in the way of Britain's admission. The commission's report will be presented next month to the foreign ministers of the Common Market members, who then must decide when Britain will be allowed to advance to the next stage and begin formal negotiations for admission despite Charles de Gaulle's displeasure...
...Fowles's The Magus dealt with a girl who was possibly 1) a ghost, 2) a nymphomaniac, 3) an actress, or 4) twins. Peter Israel's The Hen's House is filled with shifting symbolic identities, and Alain Robbe-Grillet's La Maison de Rendez-vous is peopled with so many polyperses that the reader has to beat them off with a stick...
...Three Musketeers, a romp-and-stomp spectacle in which the Danish swashbucklers made Douglas Fairbanks look like a party poop. Later, he enlivened and internationalized his programs with Afternoon of a Faun by America's Jerome Robbins, Card Game by South Africa's John Cranko, Aimez-vous Bach by Canada's Brian MacDonald, and Agon by Denmark's First Eske Holm, a Flindt protege. Brash, bristling with energy, Flindt has reorganized the training methods of the company and its dance school, initiated open auditions and, for the first time, hired non-Danish dancers. ("Five million Danes...
...Voyez-vous, rnon enfant," he would exhort a student. "Drawing is the first virtue of a painter. It is the foundation, it is everything: a thing well drawn is always well enough painted." Ingres followed his own advice. His earliest drawing (of a head) was made in 1789, when he was nine. By the time he was 17, he was a pupil in the Paris studio of Napoleon's court painter, Jacques-Louis David, and was contributing sketches for David's Mme. Récamier...
...Elizabeth sat conjugally by his side, interrupting every hour or so to ask: "Don't you think it's time we went home, Richard?" "Yes," replied the bilingual Burton. "When I've finished my drink, Garcon! Donnez-moi une autre bouteille de rotgut, s'il vous plait...