Word: banquets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...political police headquarters, a banquet was laid out: bread with no butter, salami and a bottle of lemonade for each returning traveler. "Much better than American chocolate," insisted one loyal Communist woman to Zdenka...
Some Canadian papers had trouble printing what they did get. The Toronto Telegram turned down two photos because the crowds were too small. The Sherbrooke (Quebec) Daily Record printed an Associated Press story that said "the Princess tried hard to enjoy [the banquet] but. . . fidgeted a lot and toyed restlessly with her silverware." Protests poured in from readers, and next day the Record hung its head in a Page One editorial, ruefully admitted that the story was "written by an American correspondent...
...traditional toast had just been proposed: "Prosperity to the public purse and health to the Chancellor." At the annual banquet given by the Lord Mayor of London to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, 200 of London's leading bankers and merchants & their wives got to their feet. The toast drunk, Chancellor Hugh Gaitskell (whose health was fine) responded with some distressing news about the prosperity of the public purse: Britain's dollar deficit for the third quarter of 1951 was 638 million. The audience gasped. A deficit was expected, but not this much. It was the worst financial...
...Museum of Modern Art arranged its exhibit so that visitors would see the mild stuff first. But the early Ensors, e.g., pleasant home-town scenes such as Ostend Rooftops and Afternoon at Ostend, quickly gave place to the later ones: the swirling Tribulations of St. Anthony, a skeleton-haunted Banquet of the Starved, a macabre dumb-show entitled Masks Confronting Death. His most famous picture, Entry of Christ into Brussels in 1889 (TIME, May 15,1950), was there too. It portrayed Christ as a tiny figure at the top of a pyramid of grinning masks, so shocked Ensor...
...which, like the rest of the movie, score as high in imagination as in lavishness. Notable example: the costumes for a tumultuous Beaux Arts Ball, which would tempt most moviemakers into a rainbow splurge, are all black & white. The effect, striking in itself, is the perfect aperitif for the banquet of color that follows in the ballet...