Word: frenchman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MARTIAL RAYSSE, 30, is a Frenchman who, in his addiction to brightness, persuaded his wife to wear fluorescent-hued shoes. Then, he says, "I found neon. It is living color, a color beyond color. The pen and the brush are outdated." He thinks of himself not as pop or op but as "a neon-realist." Says he: "I want everything in my work to be good-looking and brand-new. If you draw a Picasso and put neon on it, you don't have anything new." Raysse has fallen in love with painting in light: "Neon most accurately expresses...
...into the U.S. market. Such investors are attracted to Wall Street partly because they can get far more relevant information about U.S. companies than about indigenous corporations, even though European firms are becoming somewhat less secretive about their operations. Says a Bache salesman in Paris: "We can tell a Frenchman what we think General Motors will earn in the next quarter, but he normally cannot find out what a French company earned last year until some time this summer-and then it probably won't be the right figure...
...This is worse than a Hitchcock movie," muttered the Frenchman. But no one was listening. Huddled in a dingy back room of Carnegie Hall last week, the seven finalists in the Dimitri Mitropoulos International Music Competition were wrapped in a cocoon of suspense, nervously awaiting the verdict of the judges. The Czech stared vacant-eyed at the wall; the Japanese seemed mesmerized by his feet. The German bustled around the room collecting autographs. The Chilean idly felt his wrist, suddenly exclaimed: "I have no pulse! My heart has stopped...
Last week Killy and Kidd faced each other again, this time in a two-day giant slalom meet at Adelboden, Switzerland. When the Frenchman beat Billy by 1.04 sec. on opening day, sportswriters called his performance "a sovereign victory." Kidd's second-place finish was pretty remarkable too, considering that the shorter special slalom, not the 'giant slalom, is his specialty. Kidd proved next day that he needed no alibis. Crouched low over his skis, he flashed through the 56 gates and zipped across the finish line in 1 min. 49.59 sec. No one came really close -including...
...than anybody else. Americans traditionally make the best shotputters, and the high jump has been a Russian specialty ever since Valery Brumel appeared on the scene. Milers come from everywhere. The last four world record holders, in order, have been a Yorkshireman, an Australian, a New Zealander and a Frenchman-and last week France's Michel Jazy found himself confronted with two new challengers who could hardly be more dissimilar. In Wanganui, New Zealand, East Germany's Jurgen May beat Kenya's Kipchoge Keino by a bare .3 sec. in the second fastest mile ever...