Word: enfante
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...painter's ghostly father. In the '50s it was Hans Hofmann who schooled the abstract expressionists. Now, with the '60s rage for pop, who should turn up to be the grandada of the new generation but Marcel Duchamp, at 77 the century's most indestructible enfant terrible. As far back as anyone can remember, Duchamp has exulted in controversy. In 1913 his Nude Descending a Staircase, described at the time as "an explosion in a shingle factory," was the belly blow of Manhattan's Armory Show. He dabbled in dada in interbellum Paris by drawing...
Died. Henri Pigozzi, 66, founder and recently retired chairman of France's Simca, an Italian-born onetime Fiat salesman who set up his own factory in France in 1934, went on to become the enfant terrible of the French auto industry by taking over third place (behind Renault and Citroen) with his bargain-priced ($1,200) Aronde sedan, by forbidding his workers to join the national unions, and by merging with Ford's French subsidiary in 1954 and subsequently selling the controlling interest to Chrysler in 1963; of a heart attack; in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France...
...Johnson more than qualifies as a Hindenburg. He is the representative of the very policics which produce, and, except in election years, tolerate the lunatic fringe on the right. By voting for Johnson or Goldwater, one is involving oneself in a quarrel within the capitalist class, between Goldwater, the enfant terrible of Big Business, and the more obedient Johnson...
...bring to the screen his own particular blend of past and present, his own perceptive consciousness of the mind and its experience, his own harsh juxtaposition of memory and fact, of yearning and fulfillment. How ludicrous to call Muriel "essentially false, an elaborate piece of mystification" as that aging enfant terrible of British film criticism, John Russell Taylor, recently...
...late father, Isaac, a deeply cultivated man who raised his family on Edmund Burke and amused himself by reading the Bible in Greek, was a Liberal Party member of Ramsay MacDonald's 1931 coalition Cabinet. His brother Dwight was a Liberal M.P., and another brother, Michael, is the enfant terrible of Labor's left wing. "We liked to work to the rule, 'Let not the left Foot know what the right Foot doeth,' " cracks Hugh. Yet the family always preserved a merry unity through a running game of intellectual oneupmanship. One famous parry came...