Word: bouquet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Warm Milk. Room One contained four paintings for which the Met had awarded $8,500 in prizes. The awards were all safe as warm milk; granted to men who had won many prizes before, they ran the gamut from watered-down abstractionism to souped-up realism. Basket Bouquet, an impeccable and wholly uninspiring arrangement of lilac smudges by Cape Cod Abstractionist Karl Knaths, took first prize. It looked rather like a flat but tasteful Victorian sampler, translated into the smeary medium of oils. California's Rico Lebrun came in second with Centurion's Horse, a chalky, Picassoid...
...painting seems to show that it takes all kinds to make a world: there are a broad-beamed model, a shepherd boy with a goat, a Negro with a wheelbarrow, a bishop, a gargoyle, a rat, a frog, a monkey, a barking dog and a girl with a bouquet, whom Lorjou describes as "the pretty woman one sees every day some place...
Pope apparently was no more single-minded about choice of a subject in painting than he was about the style in which he painted. At the Vose show, he is exhibiting a still life. "Still Life With Cauliflower"; the charcoal portraits of his contemporaries; a study of a bouquet of "Meadow Flowers from Chamouni"; and scenes from France and Italy done in the manner of the English water colorists...
...reputation in avant-garde literary circles is just as solid as his reputation in business. His latest bouquet from U.S. poetry pundits was this year's Bollingen Prize.* Stevens makes no excuses for his double life. "Poetry," says he, "is my way of making the world palatable. It's a way of making one's experience, almost wholly inexplicable, acceptable." Nor does he make any excuses for his poems' obscurity...
...meeting Egypt's rolypoly King Farouk. Mimi, daughter of onetime Cinemactress Donal Blossom and St. Louis Restaurateur William Medart, first caught the monarch's roving eye in the casino at Deauville. Next day, the two had a chat on the beach, which Farouk followed with a kingly bouquet of flowers. Asked by reporters if she would like to marry royalty, Mimi burbled, "Sure, if I loved him. Aren't Rita and Aly Khan happy? King Farouk is as charming as Aly... However, he only kissed my hand once...