Word: constantine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hungarian in mood (it is the capital of the Magyar Autonomous Region), Cluj is an intellectual center that serves Bucharest in much the same way that Cracow does Warsaw, or Leningrad Moscow. There the works of Absurdist Eugene Ionesco get a frequent hearing, and the late Rumanian-born sculptor Constantin Brancusi is much admired...
...colossus of the West German book business, ten times larger than its nearest competitors. Lately he has made himself West Germany's movie king as well. He has bought the famed but financially troubled Ufa studio, and last month he acquired a 50% interest in Munich's Constantin Filmverleih, the country's biggest film distributor and producer. It specializes in grinding out Wild West films in the Yugoslav mountains...
...Odilon Redon for the first time; then he went to Paris, where he teamed up with Painter Walter Pach and also wired Davies to come over and help him. The Americans "practically lived in taxicabs." They met the brothers Duchamp-Villon and the dealer Ambroise Vollard. They persuaded Constantin Brancusi to make his U.S. debut in their show, arranged for paintings by Braque and Picasso...
...find such displays boring: there are much better views at the beach. In any other country, King Frederik IX's three unmarried daughters would make sentimental copy, but the tabs mostly ignore them. When Princess Anne-Marie, the youngest and fairest, embarked on a mild romance with Prince Constantin of Greece. B.T. agonized awhile, then decided to be sensational. "Is this more than friendship?" it asked. All over Denmark, eyebrows lifted at such journalistic impertinence...
...more than 50 years, the Rumanian-born Sculptor Constantin Brancusi hvec in Paris-and for more than 50 years, Paris studiously ignored him. He lived in a studio-shack among a cluster of crumbling shanties in the Impasse Ronsin, a coal-begrimed dead-end street in Mont parnasse inhabited by struggling artists...