Word: candids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spread) demonstrates Cassatt's genius for imbuing the most ordinary sights with a magic timelessness. Her compositions look as casual as candid camera shots; actually they are composed as sensitively as the Japanese prints she admired and collected. La Loge (opposite) is a surprisingly festive picture for Cassatt. Curator Frederick Sweet, who assembled Chicago's exhibition, considers it her most beautiful canvas...
...that is a little matter ... I can still walk about the world with my head erect." During World War II, he served briefly as Churchill's Minister of Information (1940-41), after France's liberation went to Paris as ambassador. Duff Cooper retired in 1947, wrote a candid autobiography, Old Men Forget, published two months before his death...
...After so candid an announcement, poorer Indians waited to see what the government would do. Then one day last week some 1,000 red-capped policemen simultaneously raided 25 Dalmia offices and executive bungalows. They seized hundreds of ledgers, sealed the accounting rooms, and mounted 24-hour guards over the premises. Dalmia himself was temporarily beyond reach: he was in Europe consulting specialists about the health of his children...
...very candid and warm story, thank goodness it was not glamorized as so many stories are today...
...office would turn out just like an interview with, say, Charlie Wilson," explains Buchwald. Although he is known at nearly every good restaurant in Paris ("My chief vice is eating too much"), he rarely drinks more than a sip of wine, finds that Americans abroad are much more candid and willing to be interviewed than in the U.S. For his popularity, Buchwald pays a heavy price. Says he: "Every atrocity that's committed by an American-or to an American-in Europe, I seem to hear about firsthand-they blame...