Word: drawn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that would protect him in defiance of the Cominform. Fajon, permanent representative of the French party on the Cominform, was just back from Bucharest. He bore a letter from Cominform Boss Andrei Zhdanov to Thorez. The Cominform message rebuked Thorez secretly for the same view of nationalism which had drawn the public thunderbolt of Cominform anathema to Tito's head. Zhdanov said that Thorez had not stuck close enough "to the basic and permanent principles of proletarian internationalism." As was clear from the rest of the letter, this Communist gobbledygook meant that Thorez was deemed guilty of substituting...
...Smoke. The corridor outside became a shambles of broken glasses and beer bottles. Reporters squatted or sprawled in complete exhaustion. Drawn by news of free drinks, swarms of drunks and doxies mobbed the celebrities as they emerged, asked silly and insulting questions...
Under regulations drawn up in 1570 by the school's patron, Sir Nicholas Bacon, enrollment was limited to 12 underprivileged boys who had "learned their accidence without books and can wright indifferently." The rule excluded Sir Nicholas' famous son, young Francis Bacon. Parents were required to furnish their boys with a bow and three arrows and if their "child shall prove unapt for learning . . . ye shall take him away; and again, if he prove apt, then that ye shall suffer him to remain till he be completely learned...
...paintings and drawings, done on the Riviera in 1946, had none of the nightmare violence that characterized Picasso's wartime work. Goats, nymphs, centaurs, children and satyrs, drawn loosely in dancing lines or painted with soft smears of cool color, sang and played pipes, swam, fished, ate dinner and slept under the trees. The one warlike note was a comic-strip series of sketches showing a duel between centaurs, which ended with the loser crumpled across a broken arrow and the horned winner looking downcast. The figures were almost all distorted, but never cruelly so. The surprising twists...
...considerable vigor and sense as a creative artist, but on the whole he has gone very wrong in this picture. His performance is so sharply mannered that it is a continuous muted dance. But too little of the remarkable vitality and grace are really his own. He has drawn heavily on John Barrymore and still more heavily on Douglas Fairbanks Sr., and his imitations, almost the more because they are so apt and eager, are as unhappy to watch as any other forged masterpiece. Besides, he has to deliver a good deal of ornate language in his deep-city Irish...