Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Renoir devoted study after study to catching the play of sunlight over the gay dresses of his models and the boaters of his friends. Degas, with a draftsman's colder eye, made the backstage world of ballet dancers and the artificial world of footlights into a private universe. Pissarro, who conscientiously tried his hand at each new style, set his easel up in the French countryside, gave even the meanest farm a nobility and poetry. Van Gogh took the same subject, extended his sensibilities to achieve a kind of ecstatic identification with the countryside's own windswept rhythms...
...nine weeks Purple People Eater has sold 1,500,000 copies. As everybody within range of a radio knows, it is about a "one-eyed, one-horned" creature "acomin' out of the sky" to "get a job in a rock-'n'-roll band." Oklahoma-born Singer Wooley, 37, who has written hits such as Too Young to Tango and appeared in westerns (High Noon) as a badman, got his inspiration from a gag riddle posed by the child of a friend: "What has one eye, one horn, flies and eats people?" (Answer: a one-eyed, one-horned...
Three Conductors. The complexities of electronic composition are such that Stockhausen, although he works twelve hours a day, has completed only seven electronic compositions. He has also experimented with instrumental music, including his Piano Piece No. 11, which permits the pianist to play fragments in whatever order his eye falls on them but specifies that when he has played one fragment three times, the piece must end. Another Stockhausen experiment: Groups, a 20-minute work which calls for three orchestras playing simultaneously under three separate conductors. His work in progress: a piece for electronic and conventional instruments, which will allow...
...Lord Nelson is the name given in Royal Navy wardrooms to a poker hand containing three Jacks. In the British tradition of understatement, this may or may not bear reference to the fact that Horatio, Lord Nelson, was a man with one eye, one arm and one idea-to beat the French. The latest and one of the best of the great sailor's biographies logs in scholarly detail the main tacks of a gusty life that carried him to the top of the column in London's Trafalgar Square-not to mention the Nelson monument in Dublin...
...wore through life like his own elegant uniforms. He served as a ship's captain at 20, and soon earned his rank in an insane bit of primitive amphibious warfare in the West Indies. (Yellow Jack killed most of his comrades.) He lost the sight of his right eye as a result of a wound suffered during the siege of Calvi on Corsica, and his arm storming the fortified town of Tenerife with a force of sailors in longboats...