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PARIS: Died: Jacques Cousteau, who brought the fantastic, muticolored undersea world of ice formations, shipwrecks and just plain mackerel to America's television masses, after more than 60 years of underwater exploration. "Jacques-Yves Cousteau has rejoined the World of Silence," the Cousteau Foundation succinctly announced, leaving unstated the cause of the 87-year-old oceanographer's death. As a child, Cousteau was notable for his passion for breaking high school windows. As an adult, after completing France's prestigious Naval Academy, he poured that energy into inventing the aqualung, building the first manned undersea colonies, and floating for more...
...changed is that today's listeners, raised in an era of shrinking arts education, are showing less interest in the classical standards. Meanwhile, younger classical performers, themselves suckled on pop, want to play it, not only to make big bucks but also because they like it. When Jean-Yves Thibaudet, famous for his interpretations of Ravel and Rachmaninoff, records an album of piano solos by jazz great Bill Evans, or the Kronos Quartet programs Jimi Hendrix side by side with Bela Bartok, you know something is happening...
...devotees and friends in the U.S., some did get through, settling for the most part in Manhattan and Los Angeles. Among them, from Paris, were Fernand Leger, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian, Jacques Lipchitz and the core group of Surrealists who went to New York City: Max Ernst, Andre Breton, Yves Tanguy, Andre Masson and Roberto Matta. From Germany, Kokoschka, Kurt Schwitters and the Dada collagist John Heartfield reached London, while Max Beckmann, Josef Albers and George Grosz made it to America...
...almost into the laps of the first-row spectators. Men are not supposed to be springboards, yet the Ukrainian and Russian acrobats in the "banquine" perform high-dive triple twists from the top of a four-man pyramid. Humans aren't built for the gorgeous torture to which Yves Decoste and Marie-Laure Mesnage submit themselves in their "hand-to-hand" body sculpture. Caked with white makeup and executing exquisitely slow convolutions, they could be Prometheus and Promethea--an Adam and Eve into whom homo sapiens might hope to evolve...
Several years later, while she was visiting New York, Yves Beauvais, a producer with Atlantic, saw Peyroux perform in a club. She spurned his first attempts to sign her--at age 17, she deemed herself too young--but then, last year, she felt she was ready. "I thought, 'I might as well try it,'" she says. "I had to make a commitment to myself...