Word: french
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After countless TV appearances. Diahann landed the role of Clara in Sam Goldwyn's gilded production of Porgy, was horrified when Musical Director Andre Previn permitted her only to mouth the lyrics to Summertime, dubbed in the voice of French-English Songstress Loulie Jean Norman. Explains Previn: "Diahann's voice was a full five tones too low." But Previn also thinks that Diahann has only begun to find her way on that ladder. "When she learns to relax as much on a nightclub floor as in the studio," says he, "she ought to scare people to death...
Died. Gerard Philipe, 36, dashing French film star who was equally at home in farce (Fanfan the Tulip), tragedy (Devil in the Flesh), or existentialist love (The Proud and the Beautiful); of a heart attack; in Paris...
...supermarket now devotes 80 ft. of space to frozen foods, carries as many as 100 different cake, cookie and biscuit mixes, about 50 kinds of baby food, shelf after shelf of quick rice, instant salad dressing and other jiffy goods. The housewife can buy her frozen potatoes whipped, French fried, crinkle cut, hashed, creamed, diced, stuffed baked, escalloped, puffed, pattied, rissoléd-and home fried. She can pick up scores of different frozen complete meals, buy dozens of frozen vegetables from peas (the favorite) to chives, soups that run from tomato to wonton...
Many famed restaurants have joined the march to the freezer. Manhattan's gilt-edged Chambord puts out a full French line, including bouillabaisse à la Marseillaise, soufflé Grand Marnier, and Cornish Hen Perigourdine with sherry, truffles, foie gras, wild rice and brandy. Schrafft's has put on sale beef Burgundy with noodles, and chicken and mushroom pie with cheese crust. Other processors are selling kangaroo-tail soup, frozen bagels, sukiyaki, enchiladas, shish kebab and frozen chicken curry...
Nursing a bruised ego and a gift for sketching, the 21-year-old Whistler embarked for Paris and the studio of French Painter Gustave Courbet. From Courbet he acquired his early brush strokes, his first model-mistress, Eloise, and a point of view: "Beauty is truth." This creed spurred the art-for-art's-sake movement with which an entire generation of painters and writers thwacked at the Victorian taste for the didactic, the sentimental and the morally elevating. From London (where he moved in 1859), Whistler deployed his canvases like troops in this avant-garde campaign. The fury...