Word: french
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...WHOLE FUNCTION of the artist in the world," Ruskin wrote, "is to be a seeing and feeling creature...the work of his life is to be twofold only: to see, to feel." The conviction advanced in the 1860s and '70s by the French Impressionists that seeing is equivalent to feeling has been present in photography throughout its history. But only recently, especially with the sudden increase of color work among serious photographers, has a painterly love and awe for pure optical effects impressively begun to displace the photographer's traditional documentary concerns...
...when he hears that the U.S. is surrounded by problems, Lyet likes to recall the old line about what French generals say when informed that their armies are surrounded: "Wonderful! This means we can attack in any direction...
...many of the biggest recent official architectural projects in America flows from this. No doubt when Gordon Bunshaft and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill designed the vast concrete drum of the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington they had in mind the "ideal," unbuilt funerary monuments to heroes dreamed up by the French Revolutionary Architect Etienne-Louis Boullée. That does not stop the thing looking like a set for The Guns of Navarone, minus the guns: an unwitting parody of museum security...
...band struck up Life Begins at 60, and the citizens of Hamburg shouted birthday greetings to the local boy who made good. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt was especially pleased with his birthday loot: a chess set with porcelain figures from French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and front-page replicas of 20 German newspapers dated Dec. 23, 1918, the date of his birth. Before the day was out, the Chancellor attended four bashes and pumped 3,000 hands. "I'll certainly have to go to the doctor," said Schmidt. "Some people put the strength...
...hysterical poem, identified himself with Lucifer. During the exhausting research and writing of Das Kapital, he was plagued by illnesses ranging from carbuncles to chronic liver inflammation. Padover shows the father of socialism distracting himself from the pain and humiliation of a carbuncle on the scrotum by quoting pornographic French verse in a letter to his German collaborator, Frederick Engels. More appealingly, there is a vignette of the whitebearded Marx trotting obediently on all fours round his London home, ridden by a five-year-old grandson. Marx's strengths and weaknesses are carefully chronicled: the affectionate relationship with...