Word: feting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fete is being subsidized by the deans of the different schools within the University enabling the students to attend without having to pay, Walji said, adding that the association hopes to raise enough money to allow the host parents of the students to also attend...
...more, because-due to the time differences across the continent-the Academy Awards now have to start at 7 p.m., in order to be seen on the East Coast by 10. Performed in broad daylight, the entrance ceremony has not much more glamour than a school fete-especially since most of the stars seemed to stay away this year, preferring to watch the rituals with coke spoon and TV set, at home. (Ray Bolger's dance around the steps of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion was taped for TV two nights earlier.) The hordes of screaming fans were diminished...
...each of the women is really his wife Camille in a different pose. Hence the picture's odd disunity: it is a composite, not a "scene." Besides, there are historical quotes: so intent was Monet on this modern fete champetre that he turned the Camille in the beige dress with vertical buttons into a parody, conscious or not, of Watteau's clown Gilles...
...Henri IV Conferring the Regency on Marie de' Medici) are much to the fore in this show, was able in maturity to go back to his great prototype and produce such majestically sensual works as Turkish Women Bathing (1854), an outdoor seraglio, a blend of Venus garden and fete champetre. In the event, it was Rubens who saved classical mythology for the romantics by rescuing it from its scholarly imbrications. By the same token, he rescued historical allegory by giving it the unique straightforwardness, the solidity and dazzle that his followers could only aspire to imitate. Perhaps no painter...
Boucher was an eminently sociable artist but not a profound one. He could take any theme-classical myth, the fete champetre, or fantasies about the Emperor of China-and, decking it with foamy light and gamboling bodies as firm as little pink quails, create from it a microcosm of civility and pleasure. The Allegory of Music (1764) became for Boucher an occasion to gently eroticize the myth; the nuptial flutters of the muse's doves are clearly of more interest than the musical score behind them...