Word: cocteau
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...sings neither well nor ill. Let specialists define her talent. The important thing is that she sings as a torch burns. She is alternately the geranium of the suburbs, the scar of crime, the lantern of the brothel and the whistle of the police. "Cocteau...
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...
Born in Lorraine, Marianne Colin took her stage name from a stage character she much admired, unhappy Oswald in Ibsen's Ghosts. For her, not only Cocteau but Andre Gide, Louis Aragon, Arthur Honegger, Maurice Yvain have written songs...
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...
Febrile, fantastic Jean Cocteau, France's No. i playboy of the intellect, left the Paris Ritz to live on a houseboat and do war work. His war work, said he, would be writing a play about love, explained: "Love and War are the only two eternal themes. But when making one it is best to talk about the other...