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Since 1840, when the Code Napoléon was enacted as France's basic civil law, married Frenchwomen have enjoyed all the legal privileges one might expect from the Emperor's opinion of them. Novelist George Sand watched in despair in the 19th century while her husband squandered her immense dowry and made her ask permission to spend the money she earned from her books and plays. A present-day French woman told her lawyer that her husband had just sold her store, and now wanted a divorce. What could she do? "Cry, madame, cry," she was advised...
...fashion's delight and men's despair, women and foundation garments have been inseparable for years. Feast or famine, thick or thin (mostly thick) they have clung to each other, lending ironclad support here (with a corset), whaleboned comfort there (with a waist cincher), out-and-out camouflage (with a wire-braided bustle or a foam-rubber bust) as far as the eye could see. Trouble was, the eye could never see far enough to know for sure where the padding left off and the girl began. Now, at long last, it is all quite clear. Thanks...
...quintet of would-be dramatists, Wilson and Gagliano show the most skill at playwriting, while the rest more often play at writing. All of them display the defect of dramatic inbreeding, attending plays instead of observing life. They share the avant-garde's peculiar complacency of despair. They seem to have acquired pain without suffering, ideas without thinking. As weather prophets of some endless bone-chilling night, they need to remind themselves that the sun also rises...
...above all is Henry Moore (TIME cover, Sept. 21, 1959). Around him have now sprung a turbulent group of younger sculptors. First to appear in the immediate postwar years were Reg Butler, Kenneth Armitage and Lynn Chadwick, whose vaguely figurative iron and bronze forms spoke to stress, anxiety and despair. Succeeding them is another generation that reacts against what one, Anthony Caro, calls their predecessors' "bandaged and wounded art." The wraps are off, the postures have come down from their pedestals and plinths, and the new British sculptors (see following color pages) are forging ahead in tough, cool...
...have tickets, don't despair. The meet will be carried live on Channel...