Word: gers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...four painters who created the language of cubism in the early teens of this century-Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Juan Gris and Fernand Léger-the first to die was also the youngest: Gris. His real name was José Gonzálèz, and he was the 13th child of a polyphiloprogenitive Madrid businessman. After a brief apprenticeship as a comic illustrator in Spain, Gris got to Paris in 1906 and installed himself as Picasso's neighbor in the now legendary Bâteau-Lavoir, a ramshackle cluster of studios in Montmartre. He painted nothing...
With the backing of Attorney Ger eral Richardson, Beall was pushing for a quick indictment of Agnew because the time during which the Vice President can be charged is rapidly running out. Under the federal statute of limitations, grand juries may indict a man for most noncapital offenses only within a five-year period following the crime...
...exhibition spans 50 years of French art, from an early Monet, Lady in the Garden, Sainte-Adresse, 1867, to a superbly rigorous and almost abstract design of what appears to be architectural motifs-pillars, blocks, steps-painted by Fernand Léger: Composition, 1918 (see color). To look at the stately procession of now-certified masterworks that falls between is to realize how inquisitive and catholic a taste Schuhkin had. This pudgy, stuttering Moscow importer held passionate convictions about the value of the "new" school of Paris, and backed them with an enthusiasm shared by no other collectors...
CHANTICLEE DINNER THEATER. Rt. 133 in Rowley; Stop the World I Want to Ger...
...often attracting bigger crowds than the party candidates. Brandt also had the notable support of Nobel-prize-winning Novelist Heinrich Böll and Film Stars Curt Jurgens and Romy Schneider, while the Free Democrats were endorsed by Swiss Playwright Rolf Hochhuth and Actor Hardy Krüger...