Word: azure
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conservative show, crammed with more or less competent studies of tired nudes, slick portraits and landscape reminders of pleasant vacations. Instead of the rose-covered cottages and shady elms in similar U.S. landscapes, there were purple-shadowed chateaux and blue and green glimpses of the Cote d'Azur. Roger Chapelain-Midy (45) had contributed an end-of-holiday picture that was one of the hits of the exhibition. Entitled The Month of September, it was a subtle yet straightforward portrait-done in the rich, muted colors of honey and white grapes-of a girl sitting in a walled garden...
Plans for financing and operating a camp at Vencee one hour's drive from Cannes on the Cote d'Azur, were outlined to the Radcliffe Student Assembly yesterday by Mary Hall '50 and Dorothea Penizek '51, co-chairmen of the Radcliffe camp committee...
...Paris, a panel of right-minded judges carefully examined the evidence, ultimately came to the conclusion that dark-haired, dark-eyed model Yvonne Viseux, 20, who used to be Miss Côte d'Azur, rated the title, Miss France...
...opening play--'Ways and Means"--is typical Coward, taking place in a luxurious bedroom on Cote D'Azur. It is slick, refined, and witty--at times too much so. The famed Coward vencer tends to get so shiny that no other values can be seen through the glitter...
Pablo Picasso was a changed man once again. A change of scene had done it. He had left Paris last summer to roam the warm Cote d'Azur. At Antibes the 17th Century Castle Grimaldi, which had been turned into a museum, caught his eye. The curator happened to be a friend of his and told 65-year-old Picasso to make himself at home...