Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...paintings of Marc Chagall like some well-loved dream. Although he has lived much of his life in France, he went on painting the rabbinical figures, village steeples, brides, bouquets, clocks and animals of Vitebsk. Back in the U.S.S.R. for the first time since 1922, the 85-year-old artist was visibly moved by an exhibition of his work, some of which has been kept under lock and key as too "formalist" for the Soviet censors. Did he remember the paintings? Tentatively touching his 1917 oil, The Wedding, Chagall replied with tears in his eyes: "More than you can imagine...
...dollar heroin-smuggling operation. As federal agents delved into Falcone's activities, they discovered that he had a sideline: a fictitious trucking firm that allegedly billed Columbia Records for services that were never performed. Among Falcone's papers, investigators found the name of David Wynshaw, director of artist relations at Columbia. A memo in Wynshaw's desk detailed-among other things-cover-ups for personal expenses of President Clive Davis. Both Davis and Wynshaw were fired for "misuse of funds," along with Anthony Rubino, director of marketing administration, who had initialed expense vouchers...
Rudolf Serkin, the concert pianist and recording artist, received the only Doctor of Music awarded today. His citation: "A many-sided artist--teacher, interpreter, performer; his deep knowledge and passionate devotion to his calling encompass the generations and happily affect both listeners and learners...
Murphy, a retired post office employee and former artist's model, is the oldest man ever to receive an A.B. degree from Harvard, and his academic career here is one of the longest...
Murphy had a dual career as an employee of the Boston post office and as an artist's model. John Singer Sargent, the painter and muralist, spotted him at a YMCA calisthenics class and hired him as a model...