Word: cocteau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Savagely, in a can-opener contralto, Mile. Oswald ripped into La Dame de Monte Carlo, Poet Jean Cocteau's half song, half chant of the tables, the croupiers and "always the Mediterranean waiting." The mobile was removed, its discs and wires jittering gently. Mile...
Caught in the crystal like flies in amber were Surrealist Salvador Dali's woman with bureau drawers for breasts, a massive Spanish fountain by Etcher Sir Muirhead Bone, an opium-ridden fantasy of Painter-Poet Jean Cocteau, a woman feeding hens, by Iowa's Grant Wood. Even the shading of characteristic artists' tools was faithfully reproduced, from the wavy Japanese brush strokes of Isamu Noguchi's cat to the sculptural modeling of a Maillol nude...