Word: cocos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have always been anxious," said Pierre Auguste Renoir, "to paint women as beautiful fruits." One of his favorites was Gabrielle, his son "Coco's" rosy-cheeked nurse. Over the years, gallery-goers have seen scores of Gabrielles. Last week the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco proudly put on display one it was sure the public had never seen...
...bare-bottomed little boy as he petted his cat. Renoir never titled it, but Vollard had supplied a painstakingly descriptive one: Woman Guiding a Child's First Steps Toward a Chair on Which There Is a Kitten. The legion, with the blessings of the experts, called it simply Coco and Gabrielle...
...week's end the legion and the experts suffered a mild shock. Gabrielle, now in her 70s and living near Los Angeles, announced that she was definitely not the girl in the picture. As for the little boy, it couldn't be Coco because he was never that plump. Gabrielle even wondered whether the painting might be a forgery. "Even the Louvre," said she, "can sometimes be fooled by clever people...
When her hotel presented a $225.20 bill and refused to accept her check, onetime bestselling Novelist Ursula (ExWife) Parrott, 48, spent 30 hours in the Sussex County (Delaware) jail with her French poodle, Coco. "This sort of publicity is bad for a writer," complained Author Parrott. "A writer isn't like an actress, you know...
...following the dictates of Free Enterprise and by-golly-have-a-right-to (5) Women have no business at Harvard at all (the Reactionaries) (6) Women must be supported in their battle against a totalitarian exclusion polciy (the Marxists) (7) If we keep on like this we'll become Coco-Cola "co-eds" (8) We must keep on like this because we have a great intellectual, etc. heritage to fulfill in the world (9) Who do we think we are, anyway? (10) We are a minority group being cruelly discriminated against...