Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...children, Dufy had to pinch centimes in his student days. "I concentrated on drawing," he remembers, "because paints were too expensive." That concentration made him a superb draftsman, with a quick, nervous but perfectly assured style reminiscent of Japan's 19th Century master, Hokusai. But Dufy did not begin to paint like Dufy until he was in his 403. He lived on the top of Montmartre, got along by designing wallpaper (see below), tapestries, upholstery and dresses...
Upperclass solicitations, withheld thus far, will begin Tuesday and continue through November 12, Cameron said...
...parties begin tonight at 8 p.m. HYRC members and their guests have been invited to the Republican festival, and girls from Radcliffe, Wellesley, and Simmons will be on hand...
Explained Nicholas Tsaousis, Security Police director: "this is a measure of how fanatically Communist he is. I've noticed that some men begin to talk after only five days' solitary confinement. Politis was solitary for a long time, and when he found he could contain himself no longer, he bit his tongue...
...wonderful in tights. The dancing, featuring Leonide Massine and Robert Helpmann as both choreographers and performers, is proficient. But, during the longest ballet sequence, the badly inflamed Technicolor will not make the picture any more exciting to balletomanes. People who don't much care for the ballet to begin with may conclude from The Red Shoes that ballet folk are a more tiresome lot of exhibitionists offstage than...