Word: estes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...est Amusant!" This summer, nearly half a century later, Parade's great curtain, 33 ft. by 55 ft., dropped again, and again was greeted with delight. The occasion: a special festival performance of three ballets on which Picasso had worked, put on by the French provincial city of Toulouse to open an accompanying, summer-long exhibition in the Musée des Augustins of his costume designs, decors, sketches, curtains, and related paintings...
...focused exclusively on this aspect of Picasso's prodigious career. Mindful that "the biggest collector of Picassos is Picasso," Milhau sought an interview. Four months later he got in to see the painter-who turned out to be delighted with the idea: "Bon. D'accord. C'est amusant!" ("Good. All right. It's fun!"). The maestro scoured his scattered villas and selected 71 works, 63 of them never before exhibited. They ranged from a postage-stamp-sized cartoon to the 35 ft. by 55 ft. July 14th (Bastille Day) curtain commissioned by Paris' People...
...exclaim, "For Christ's sake, what's this?" He was a man of rare humor, often expressed in self-deprecating terms. Responding to criticism that he was too intellectual, that he talked over the heads of the voters, he tossed out a Latinism: Via ovum cranium difficilis est (The way of the egghead is hard). He loved people and in his later years was one of New York's most inveterate partygoers; yet even when surrounded by admirers he somehow seemed lonely. He was a completely sophisticated citizen of the world; yet he was at home only...
...music demonstration, Hortensio (Todd Drexel) at least actually plays the 'cello on stage. And when Lucentio (Robert Benedict) pretends to give Bianca a Latin lesson, "Hic ibat Simois," etc. has been supplanted by "Gallia est omnis," etc. on the undoubtedly accurate grounds that Caesar's De Bello Gallico will be more familiar to audiences than Ovid's Heroides. One wonders, however, why any of these three gentlemen would want to marry Bianca, for Geneva Bugbee makes her an insipid nullity...
...else? "Clark!" somebody shouted, and suddenly the crowd was chanting: "Clark! Clark! Clark!" Sure enough, just 3 min. 29 sec. after it had left the starting grid, Jim Clark's Lotus-Climax swept around the last left-hand bend into full view of the cheering stands. "C'est formidable!" gasped one awed Frenchman. Sighed another: "C'est termine"-It's all over...