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Needs Understood. The noise begins at dawn with the loudspeaker chants of muezzins from minarets, followed by the clangor of bells from Christian churches. Auto horns, the plaintive cries of peddlers, and the bray of donkeys blend with the screech of jet planes. With evening comes the sound of 64 nightclubs, the throb of motorboats carrying gamblers up the coast to the Casino de Liban, and the shrill cries of prostitutes in the block-long Bourg Central Square in the heart of town...
...churches, hospitals and universities across Spain, even an 8,611-sq.-ft. bulwark in an electrical plant in Grandas de Salime. His murals are close to "official" art, full of public consciousness, but when he won first prize at the 1963 Paris biennial, it was awarded for his feverish blend of abstraction and figuration. Vaquero Turcios fears gimmickry in the Spanish preoccupation with paint as material rather than illusion. But he himself uses a latex and plastic mixture on pressed wood, or even plaster, as in the sails of his Homage to Rodrigo de Triana, the sailor on Columbus...
...Francoise (38-23-36) Dorléac, 22, Deneuve's vivacious sister, has a funny-bone that suggests a blend of Carole Lombard and Kay Kendall. Her body is long and sinewy, and she prances when she walks, but her hair is her fortune. It covers her face like a sheep dog's, gets in her mouth when she talks, floats in her own prop wash as she capers ahead of That Man from Rio. Showing no face at all, only hair, she read for the lead in the Paris production of Gigi...
This is how ordinary TV pictures are built up, but the moon shots were scanned more slowly; photographic film was needed to blend them into a pic ture. While each picture was being drawn on the tube, a kinescope camera watched, keeping its shutter open just long enough to catch one entire shot. At intervals, the engineers snapped the face of the tube with a Polaroid camera and got an instant print that gave quick assurance that all was going well...
Perched on a high, verdant ridge at Saint Paul de Vence above Nice, the museum is the elegantly terraced product of José Luis Sert, dean of Harvard's Graduate School of Design. Its ochre fieldstone walls blend into the slope; atop the roof, flying scoops shaped like quarter-cylinders trap the harsh Mediterranean light, diffuse it through milky glass, and bounce it off vaults inside to soften it further. Six galleries are devoted respectively to Bonnard, Giacometti, Kandinsky, Chagall, Braque and Miró; the paintings are from Maeght's collection or gifts from the artists...