Word: art
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reclined on a leopard upholstered davenport which matched the drapes, as we had our girl to girl talk. "I've been dusting the objects d'art." (Her fans will recall that Miss Tinee's wedding gift to her husband was a life-size nude statue of herself.) A nursemaid appeared, carrying Mae's new-born infant Garnette and Mae explained, "I had her by natural childbirth. I didn't want to miss one minute of it. My husband Ulysses did the preparation exercises right along with...
Police were curious about the fact that several people closely connected with the Lacazes had died suddenly. Domenica's first husband, wealthy Art Collector Paul Guillaume, was first thought to have drowned, and then was said to have died of paratyphoid. Jean Walter, her multimillionaire second husband, met sudden death when he was run down by a passing Citroên after alighting from a car in which sat his wife and Dr. Lacour. Inevitably this curiosity turned to the puzzling business of a famous American in Paris, U.S. Millionairess Margaret Thompson Biddle, who spent a night...
...layman who know?s nothing about art but suspects that abstract painters are off their rockers won support last week from a Paris physician who has treated about 70 abstractionists in the last ten years. Not only are they sick, said Dr. Elie Bontzolakis in the weekly Arts, but "the more abstract, the sicker they...
...Bontzolakis is not alone in equating abstractionism with emotional disturbance. Arts quoted another Paris doctor: "In abstract art, the process of creation is ... the famous Rorschach test reversed." Said another: "Abstract art translates a disturbance which is perhaps only the anguish of these painters backed against the wall...
...same expansive spirit as his good friend Thomas Jefferson. He raised his children to be geniuses, saw them more or less painfully sink to the level of ordinary men and women. Young Raphaelle found solace, as he sank, in parlor games, ventriloquism, a pretty shrew of a wife, his art, and the bottle. He turned restlessly to science. He patented a preservative for ships' timbers and a system for heating houses, developed a "new theory of the universe" which attributed the movement of astral bodies in space to electrical attractions and repulsions. He was an immensely likable lush...