Word: edouard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when Edouard Manet was 31, he changed the course of art. He did it in the only way possible, by producing a picture that was both revolutionary and great. His reward was laughter...
...stiff resistance. Faure himself compromised, agreed to call the Polyvalents off businesses grossing less than 60 million francs, if the Assembly would postpone the debate on repeal of the tax evasion penalties. "Otherwise," he said, "you can find yourselves another government." Poujade-backing Assemblymen Max Brusset and Edouard Frédéric-Dupont agreed to withdraw their motions...
...EDOUARD PIGNON, 50, a rugged son of a Pas-de-Calais miner, who likes to build up massive forms overflowing with a healthy sensuality. Pignon believes: "It is a question of massing, of warping the surface, and not of hollowing...
...When he is off the air, Liebman takes his pleasures seriously. With his wife, ex-Operatic Soprano Sonia Veskova ("She was a pupil of Tetraz-zini"), Liebman lives in a six-room Park Avenue apartment with an extensive collection of impressionist and primitive paintings (his favorite artists: Pierre Bonnard, Edouard Vuillard, Ilonka Karasz) and shelves of Dresden china, porcelain figurines and antique service plates. His personal chef "may possibly be the greatest chef in the whole world." Even when the Liebmans dine alone, service is formal: "We always have wine and finger bowls...
...German rearmament and admission to WEU? Snapped Mendes: "This is a package deal, and there is no possibility of escaping from it." To the M.R.P. Mendes insisted: "There is no alternative solution, and it is no longer possible to proceed with new meetings. Our allies are not willing." Old Edouard Herriot quavered a plea for "some more time for reflection." Said Mendes: "We've had four years. We can't abuse the patience of our allies." As he had all through the debate, Mendes argued not that the Germans had to be armed for France's safety...