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...what constructivism would be to the 1920s: the house style of Utopian socialism in its various forms. Pissarro was a fervent anarchist, and his dot-crusted scenes of idyllic rural labor (as stylized and unreal, in some ways, as any 18th century pastoral) are attempts, not always successful, to convey an ideal vision of social dignity based on freely shared work. In this he was the heir of Millet as well-though he certainly did not know peasant life as Millet had. But by the mid-1890s, with his bustling market scenes and views of Rouen cathedral rising from...
...amuse a friend or cloud the public image. William Faulkner, who liked to characterize himself as a back-country farmer, chose a gelatinous, Hollywood-issue publicity shot, with only his pipe in sharp focus, to give to the woman who would become his mistress. The message Faulkner intended to convey with the photo-apparently taken during one of his scriptwriting stints-is as blurred as his visage...
...ceremony was as laconic as tradition allowed. President of the Constitutional Council Roger Frey read a brief statement declaring that Mitterrand had won a majority of votes in the May 10 election. Mitterrand then stepped to the microphones and made a four-minute speech that was obviously intended to convey reassurance rather than radicalism. "It is natural for a great nation to have great ambitions," he said. "In today's world, can there be a loftier duty for our country than to achieve a new alliance between socialism and liberty?" Speaking of his election, he said, "There was only...
DIED. William Saroyan, 72, prolific Armenian-American novelist, playwright and short story writer who strove to convey the romance and vitality of American life in such works as the 1939 Pulitzer-prize winning play, The Time of Your Life, and the 1943 novel, The Hu man Comedy; of cancer; in Fresno, Calif. (see THEATER...
...LIFE. Bergen took to the shutter when her film career faltered, and in 1972 also made the cover of LIFE with her portrait of Comedian Charlie Chaplin and his wife Oona. Still, it will take all of Bergen's technique on both sides of the camera to convey the legendary perfectionism of the fabulous original. Gandhi, who was photographed by Bourke-White in 1946, captured her technique with an admiring nickname: the Torturer...