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Former president, Harry J. Wilson '93 said the decision to add Radcliffe to the name would help broaden peo- ple's perceptions about the club...
Apart from the exclusive Coco Point Lodge, open only from December through April and "booked solid" at $245 per cou ple per day, the only place to stay is Le Village Soleil, a charming cottage-style hotel that can put up 20 guests. One way to dip toes in this particular par adise is to take a day trip by plane, swim, see the bird sanctuary, savor the langouste - and lay plans for a longer visit later...
Tricolors and Parasols. This sim ple optimism, underlying the aggressive color, is the main difference between Fauvism and expressionism. Every where one turns in this show, pleasure is celebrated: the tricolores and red, white and blue parasols in Raoul Dufy's street scenes, the rosy theatrical vigor of Van Dongen's scene of a couple out side a brothel. The Hussar (Liverpool Night House), 1906, the slapdash but infectious ebullience of Vlaminck's still lifes. The best sight of all, though, is Matisse inventing the Mediterranean; it is amazing to find how deeply one's images...
...European design so successful? Is it because, as Italy's Giugiaro immodestly claims, "the level of taste is higher in Europe than anywhere else in the world"? Perhaps, though many Europeans concede that in some other realms involving taste on an even more rarefied level - painting, for exam ple - the center of action has left Europe for the U.S. or elsewhere. Indeed, though most new cultural trends begin in the U.S., Europeans say, they need filtering through the Continental sense of style before becoming internationally acclaimed...
...Tempest. Shipwrecks are what pass for plots here as the pseudoclassical hero washes up, island by island, it seems, across the Aegean and the Mediterranean, losing and finally regaining his wife and daughter in the process. Before their reunion, the wife becomes presumably the only matron in a tem ple of vestal virgins, the daughter certainly the only virgin in a brothel - peaks of survival which may outdo even Pericles' own. Shakespeare, the scholars say, wrote only the last three acts, and perhaps ought to be forgiven for them...