Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Matisse compared old friend Marquet's sketches to those of Master Japanese Draftsman Hokusai. Said Paris-Presse Critic René Barotte: "It is difficult to express more life in fewer lines . . . impossible to use black and white better...
...contracts almost entirely, and were not represented at the show. Richardson Boat Co. has sold all of its 1952 stock of 29-ft. and 33-ft. models and can make no more. Owens Yacht Co. Inc. has so much Government work that it now builds only one 30-ft. express cruiser...
...Winston soothes France,"said an eight-column banner in London's Daily Express. The Prime Minister's two-day visit to Paris last week was plainly designed to allay French fears before he set sail on the Queen Mary this week for his first official trip to the U.S. since the war. He wanted to assure his political next-door neighbor, French Premier Rene Pleven, that he would make no deals with the Americans which left France out in the cold. And he made it plain that Britain's refusal to join a Western Europe economic...
...worst casualty, however, was not the camps or the crops but the morale of the refugees. Yemenite Jews stoned passing cars to express their resentment of those who lived comfortably. Women stood over spluttering stoves in tents and wished they'd never seen Israel...
...London failed to find much true artistic classicism. Instead, without the usual nightmarish litter to distract them, critics and gallerygoers were spotting some old Dali shortcomings more clearly than ever. The London Times dismissed Dali's recent work as "trivial and irreverent . . . singularly banal." In the Daily Express, Critic Osbert Lancaster applied the most devastating label of all: Victorian. In his "laborious accuracy and painstaking attention to detail," said Lancaster, Dali reminded him of some "minor academician" of Victoria's Royal Academy...