111op

I did search for Calder works in France (Wikipedia, etc.) but I can't find anything that really fits this clue. Also tried to Google Palais Calder etc.

But it does seem to fit the general theme of this clue (something art related that requires clever construction, etc.).

Also I don't see how the "bull-headed" fits in with all this.

111op

Oh, maybe that's the usual L/I confusion. I saw the Pblah Iblah and I thought it was an ell. I use lowercase letters for my clues and maybe I misread it.

111op

It could be Palais Ideal du Facteur Cheval (but not the right number of letters).

http://www.aricie.fr/facteur-cheval/

How did I get this? I typed Palais I into Google.

I need to go get some breakfast. I'll look at this more later.

111op

I think that's it. The website says this guy was a postman and was born Joseph-Ferdinand (note the 9 letters in Ferdinand) Cheval.

Thanks, cmt, for telling me it's an "eye." Gosh. I need a new pair of glasses.

I don't know who the thinker is though. I'll look more later.

cmt

Strange looking thing, and one of the many things I've never heard of. http://photos.french-property.com/da...5735cheval.jpg

111op

http://www.jeremyjosephs.com/postmanspalace.htm

The thinker is Andre Breton. Isn't he the one who wrote the Surrealist Manifesto?

Do I have permission to proceed to the next clue? I need to think of one though. I'm so rusty.

111op

And thanks for the interesting clue, LVSue.

cmt

An admirer was Andre Breton, and it fits.

I think you have the entire thing now. You might as well post a new clue if you're ready, becaue you MUST be right!

111op

Thanks cmt. (You saw my post on Breton about two minutes before yours? )I'll try to think of one. Have not really been thinking much about this thread. Will post one in a few minutes.

cmt

No, I didn't see it. I wasn't there when I began writing my post. Funny.

111op

Ah, great minds think alike.

Did you ever look at my blog? If it's slow that might be entertaining for a few minutes until I provide the next clue.

Sorry I didn't respond to your e-mail earlier, but, as I mentioned in my reply, I don't check that e-mail account that closely. But if you send me a link to your photos I'll love to look at it.

cmt

Confession time: I haven't scanned my photos yet, so they're not on Ofoto yet, and I haven't read your "b - - -" yet. However, I opened it and I really like the look of it. It looks like a work printed on parchment, not like something in techie cyberspace called a b----. I will do both soon, very soon, very very soon.

111op

This clue has a couple of parts, all unrelated. If a number (#) is required, use the roman form (i.e. V = 5, X = 10, M = 1000, etc.)

(a) Architect (2 words, 2, 9) famous for proposing (#) points of architecture.

(b) (#) (object: 5 letters) in a Roman (unit of measurement: 4 letters).

(c) The (object: 5 letters) of this person (2 words: 5 for first, 2nd is a #) was recently interred with great fanfare.

(d) Film manifesto (2 words: 5 letters, then #) by person (3 words, 4, 3, 5).

Last letter of last word in person's name in (d) is "r" from facteur.

111op

Actually the look comes from blogger.com so I take no credit for it. It's amusing to me how people seem to all think that I actually created it.

111op

I wasn't quite accurate in (d). It's actually a film movement, I guess -- I had thought it was a manifesto. And there's a group of people, but I asked for the most famous one.

LVSue

It was great to watch your wheels work. Sorry I wasn't very clear with clues.

I don't really understand all the unrelated clues. Is the point the Roman numerals? or the numbers?

(a) Le Corbusier V
(b) M paces in a mile?
(c) Dumas I ???

111op

Hi Sue, there's no reason -- I figured each part alone is too easy.

But, well, the answers all have a number in them.

You've (a) and (b). As for (c), many of the country's monarchs are buried in one close, where the object of this "Lost ...." was buried. The country comes up very often in this crossword puzzle.

As for (d), I used the person once in a previous clue. This is a Scandinavian director (there aren't that many of these).

111op

oops -- buried in a church close to a major metropolis.

111op

By the way, in (c) and (d) the numbers' Roman representation have more than one letter.

LVSue

(d) Dogma XCV Lars von Trier?