Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Game Bird. In Laurens, Iowa, one hour after the pheasant season opened, Mrs. R. W. Lind bagged a pheasant under her daughter...
...free-form dachshund. On the other side, Tati ranges the proponents of the casual life: Hulot himself, an awesomely inefficient employee of the department of sanitation, a big fat slob who sells vegetables from the back of a prehistoric delivery truck, a sneaky old female janitor and her moronic daughter, several sinister schoolboys, several drunks, an overstimulated canary and any number of mangy mutts...
Modigliani died at 35, of drink, hashish, poverty and TB. Two days later his mistress-and the mother of his daughter -killed herself; the child was raised by her paternal grandmother and aunt, who always spoke in reverent tones of "your poor father." Jeanne Modigliani grew up to be an art scholar, and now she has done a prim but thorough job of sorting out her father's miserable binge of a life...
...while he wept and stormed. For his portraits he would charge ten francs a sitting, "and a little alcohol." His nudes were of girls that were close to him, done with restrained appreciation. "For anyone who knew only the nudes and portraits of Modigliani's last years," his daughter writes, the artist's life "would seem . . . the quiet manifestation of a mild optimism." He found peace in art only...
...Pleasure of His Company. A suave drawing-room comedy about a middle aged playboy who teaches his daughter to sip champagne before she settles down to the domestic orange juice of marriage. Cyril Ritchard, Cornelia Otis Skinner...