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...painters managed to outrage the respectable standards of their day with more gusto than France's master of 19th century realism, Gustave Courbet. In his time he kept up a running battle with critics, who found his work sordid and common, termed him a "butcher" and "a great stupid painter." Today Courbet's work is attacked from the new academy of abstraction as too photographic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: NEW ACQUISITION: BOSTON'S COURBET | 4/30/1956 | See Source »

...smile had been a watchful eye, appraising his audience well, and judging what should and should not be done during Khrushchev's and Bulganin's visit a fortnight hence. He had seen the unanimous press attack on Secret Police Chief Ivan Serov, denouncing Serov as a "thug," "butcher" and "murderer" when Serov flew in last month to check security arrangements for K. & B. And though Russian Ambassador Jacob Malik had said repeatedly that Serov would nonetheless accompany K. & B., Moscow last week discreetly dropped the head terrorist from the list of top Communists coming to Britain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Bland Advance Man | 4/16/1956 | See Source »

...other hand, doesn't seem to dig the music so much. She looks for the funny people who come to visit with her friends and her coffee. Latterly, a swarthy young man who is known among intimates as "The Butcher" and who smokes cigarillos has made the scene and helps Pat wait on her humble customers. Pat really doesn't resent the public's comment on her pretty dresses and lengthy eye-lashes because she knows that nobody really takes that sort of thing seriously. Pat says she was from Michigan before she was from Europe, and The Butcher reportedly...

Author: By Gavin R. W. scott, | Title: Cafe Capriccio | 4/10/1956 | See Source »

...block-square, million-dollar Shoppers Market in Santa Monica, Calif, was having its grand opening. Behind the butcher counter stood Actor Ernest Borgnine, a smile on his face and a meat cleaver in his hand. The man who proved, in Marty, that butchers are nice people, was being spurred on by throngs of movie fans and pressagents and a group of scantily clad models with placards announcing, "I Love Marty." Reporters, newsreel cameramen and photographers were on hand, and two representatives of the Santa Monica Bay District Meatcutters Union, Local 587 (the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workmen of North America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Promotion of Marty | 3/19/1956 | See Source »

...publicists have already demonstrated that they have both the cash and the know-how to go after it. To date the ballyhoo for Marty-including trade paper advertising, 16-mm. prints of the film, personal appearances of Borgnine on TV and radio, rhinestone cleavers and knives for the butcher-counter routine-has cost $350,000, a little more than the $343,000 it cost to make the movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Promotion of Marty | 3/19/1956 | See Source »

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