Word: cool
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clear, cool evening last June, Diane and Herbert Rang were married in Los Angeles. After the ceremony at the West Adams Presbyterian Church, the young couple, both of Korean descent, led the way into an adjoining hall for the wedding banquet. There 300 guests sipped fruit punch and consumed platefuls of traditional Korean fare: tuna, popped rice, olives, tea and rice cakes...
...Francisco's Boucher was painted for Mme. de Pompadour, passed to an English collection in the 19th century and moved westward again to America. Sweet and cool as a sundae, the canvas shows the best of Boucher's easy sensualism. Because his temperament accorded perfectly with his time and place, and because of his decorative genius, Boucher was showered with honors, made Peintre du Roi and Director of the Paris Academy. His fame perished in the French Revolution-to be eventually restored by posterity. Curiously, his Diana is not Diana at all, but Jupiter, who seduced Callisto...
Barney Kessel (Contemporary LP). A top jazz guitarist comes out of West Coast TV and film studios to make his first featured album. Most of these selections are clean, agile and on the cool side, typical of the spate of jazz disks coming from the Coast...
...addles her mind, so that sometimes she kneels in prayer before a color picture of Christ, sometimes before the stuffed parrot. As she lies in bed, half-crazed, alone, and dying, Felicité's last earthly vision is of a huge parrot hovering over her head. Flaubert keeps cool about all this, but his evocative prose keens a universal dirge for the lonely, desolate humans in the world...
...subject material for his inspired brush, Painter Paul Cézanne always returned to his home town of Aix-en-Provence. He seemed to thrive best in the sunny, sleepy atmosphere of Provence, with its sloping vineyards bathed in Mediterranean light and its vistas of baked mountains seen though cool green pines. He liked to hire a carriage and ride out to a spot on the road south from Aix where the view of Mount Sainte-Victoire especially appealed to him. There, sitting beneath a pine tree, Cézanne painted the swirling, dramatic picture above, catching on canvas...