Word: buffet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eight years ago, when he won the prized French critics' award for his gruesome oils of skinned rabbits, skinny chickens and harsh still-lifes, Bernard Buffet was a gaunt and gangling youth of 20 who personified postwar misery and despair. Lacking canvas, he painted on his mother's sheets. He lived in a narrow, unheated room and went to the Louvre "not to look at the pictures but to keep warm." Last week a plumper Bernard Buffet, nattily turned out in English tweeds, rolled up to Paris' fashionable Drouant-David Gallery in his chauffeur-driven Rolls-Royce...
...Litter air e issued a warning: "Under the circumstances, it will be necessary to banish the bottles and partridges from the tables, for the painter honored by the Goncourt does not like rosy cheeks, but prefers gaunt figures bent over plates garnished with fish vertebrae." The guest artist: Bernard Buffet, 27, France's most popular painter (TIME, March 21), whose portraits depict the leanest and hungriest figures since Picasso's Frugal Repast...
...parade of precise details of the atomic process, e.g., how to extract uranium concentrates from raw uranium ore. With this new knowledge, other nations could save years of duplicating research, speed up their atomic programs with less cost and effort. For the small, underdeveloped nations, in particular, the rich buffet of know-how was a memorable feast. Waving a thick sheaf of scholarly reports, one Israeli scientist declared happily: "This'll keep me busy for years...
...delegates trooped off to the buffet, the milling newsmen (there were 1,400 assembled there) were already predicting that no real decisions would be reached at Geneva. Ignoring the portents, delegates doggedly cultivated the air of good fellowship. All up and down Geneva's shoreline, villas resounded with the clinking of glasses and the clatter of plates as Russians dined the British, British dined the Russians, Russians dined the French...
...Four met once more, and each delivered speeches declaring they favored increased communication between the two blocs. At the buffet, Bulganin said plaintively to Ike that his arms-inspection plan would not work because it is so easy, for example, to hide a four-engine bomber from air detection. Ike grinned and said: "If you think it is, please show...