Word: fernand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...German Jew who fled the Nazis, Lindner was exposed to the earthy expressionism of Max Beckmann and George Grosz, and he admired the smooth machine-surfaces with which Fernand Leger packaged reality. In the U.S., he developed an appreciation for advertising imagery as an illustrator...
...Fernanda Fuentes Ríos, a Puerto Rican American of Negro blood, has had six husbands. Junior, her sixth, is 19. Fernandá's youngest daughter Cruz is 18. She is currently estranged from her third husband, but not to the point of refusing him occasional access to her favors. Felicita and Soledad, two other daughters of Fernanda's, are whores. They are also good mothers, although somewhat unconventional: the lullabies that soothe Felicita's children would redden a longshoreman's ears. Fernanda's only son, Simplicio, 21, ran away from home...
Perhaps De Gaulle was recalling the days when his generals mutinied against the Republic in Algeria (1961) and succeeded in getting junior officers to carry out their orders. To prevent such actions in the future, General Fernand Gambiez and others have spent three years rewriting the French military code. In one of the new provisions, a soldier may refuse to punish prisoners and civilians by "cruel treatment, torture and threats." Indeed, he may be court-martialed for obeying illegal orders...
Sitting outside the famed Rotonde café in Montparnasse in 1921, the late Abstract Painter Fernand Léger spied what he described as "an extraordinary mobile object" bicycling alone, dressed in clergyman's black and a derby hat. Wrote the painter: "He advanced quietly, scrupulously obeying the laws of perspective." It was Le Corbusier...
...assigned to sketch the circus. Barnum & Bailey was so pleased that it gave him a free entrance pass. He followed the American artists' trail to Paris, where he made his own toy circus in which he sat performing like some child Gargantua for such luminaries as Fernand Leger, Joan Miro, and Jean Cocteau...