Word: fran
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...from her previous marriage, who often visits them. But Picasso's isolation from his own offspring is nearly absolute. His first son, Paul, is now 50 and lives in Paris; his daughter by Marie-Thérèse Walter lives in Spain; and his two children by Françoise Gilot, Claude, 24, and Paloma, 22, were cut out of his life and virtually deprived of support from their millionaire father during one of his fits of rage over their mother's memoirs, Life With Picasso. Only work remains...
...Picasso's life, he made a disastrous marriage to one of Diaghilev's dancers, a Russian girl named Olga Koklova. Picasso, as several of "his" women have made clear, was never an easy man to live with. As he put it bluntly to his later mistress Françoise Gilot, women are for him "either goddesses or doormats." (Picasso, not Mailer, is the century's monument of narcissism and male chauvinism...
...LATEST YEARS: 47. First Steps-1943; 48. Woman in Armchair (Portrait of Françoise Gilot)-1952; 49. Portrait of Madame H.P.-1952; 50. The Women of Algiers (after Delacroix)-1954; 51. Portrait of Sylvette David-1954; 52. Portrait of J.R. with Roses-1954; 53. Woman by a Window-1956; 54. Aries: The Arena in Front of the Rhone-1960; 55. Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe-1961; 56. The Artist and His Model-1963; 57. Rembrandt and Saskia-1963; 58. The Sabines-1963; 59. Femme Couchée-1964; 60. Tête d'Homme...
Wilt Chamberlain hook sliding into second base. Brooks Robinson passing the puck to Howard Cosell in the keyhole. Fran Tarkenton striking out the side in the World Series. Bobby Orr slashing over right tackle to win the Davis Cup for the Pittsburgh Orioles...
French film makers appear to have an abiding and unbounded affection for childhood recollection. The results have sometimes been memorable (François Truffaut's The 400 Blows), occasionally even classic (Jean Vigo's Zero for Conduct). Such adventures into the past require a good deal of perspective if they are to be anything more than sentimental souvenirs. This quality is in short supply in Louis Malle's reminiscence, Murmur of the Heart...