Word: finest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...popular in the U.S., even though it is spoken in French (with English subtitles). Two of its players, Charles Boyer and Danielle Darrieux, are world-famed, and a third, Vittorio De Sica, is an Italian matinee idol who in middle age has become well known as one of the finest directors (Shoeshirte, The Bicycle Thief) now at work...
...exhibition of pre-World War I Picassos that opened last month in Paris was one of the delights of the season. The 49 paintings ranged from the Blue Period Harlequin and His Companion (1900) to cubist arrangements, such as Violin and Glass (1913), and included some of the finest works of the young Picasso. But last week, after the show had attracted capacity crowds since its opening, the whole affair was abruptly called...
...seven years, Chato has made Sao Paulo's Museum of Art one of the finest in the world. Among its treasures, it boasts two Titians, two El Grecos, four Goyas, four Manets, two Monets, seven Modiglianis, ten Toulouse-Lautrecs, eleven Renoirs, four Van Goghs, five Ceézannes, two Gauguins, two Picassos and such masters as Bellini, Mantegna, Memling, Raphael, Rembrandt, Rubens and Valasquez. Most of these possessions are a result of Chato's winning way of putting the bite on other people for money...
Thanks especially for your June 14 issue on Dr. Oppenheimer. It's the finest delineation of our American policies, foreign and domestic, that we've had in a long, long time, and it should be required reading for everyone...
...chill North Pacific water does not bother otters either, for they wear the finest fur that any animal possesses...