Word: divan
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...little glass in the morning," the old man once said, "I take up my brushes." Though frail, Georges Braque still takes up his brushes each morning in his Paris studio near the Pare de Montsouris. He may work standing for a while; more often, he sits grandly on a divan and calls for his brushes and colors like a surgeon calling for his scalpels and clamps. This week he will be 80-the same age as his ebullient former partner, Pablo Picasso...
...theology book in a divan...
...Italy's The Adventure embarrassed some spectators after sensuous Monica Vitti had rolled in unmown hay with her leading man. It left them spellbound when the fellow enjoyed a tart on a hotel divan while Mistress Monica twitched with loneliness in her bed upstairs. Roberto Rossellini and the professional cinema crowd hailed the film as "masterful" and "ten years ahead of its time...
...remembered, of course, that she had shot his father dead in that same room not six months before. Did that alter his feelings? It did not. At scene's end, the happy couple sprawled in warm embrace while the young lady mused: "Is this the same divan where your father bled to death...
...response to demands for an encore telephoned in during the intermission. It is hard to choose a favorite from among these miniature masterpieces, mainly because they are somewhat difficult to tell apart; the finest from an artistic point of view is the one entitled "Little Ivan sat in a Divan," which Tchaikowsky incorporated into the last movement of his Fourth Symphony...