Word: henri
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...keeping draftees in the army for 30 months instead of the legal term of 18 months. "When the lights go on at the end of the film, you sit there crushed, speechless, heartsick," wrote Critic Jean Planchais in Le Monde. "It is a film that makes you sick," concluded Henri de Turenne of L'Express. "Sick at heart. Sick to the stomach...
...Thus Henri Matisse. The gentle modesty was characteristic of the man. When Matisse died in 1954 at the age of 84, he left behind him what must seem, in retrospect, the most serene and perfect body of "decorative" painting since Tiepolo. His bronzes -generally small in scale and strictly limited in edition-are not so famous. Yet a feeling has been abroad for some years that Matisse was a master not only of painting but of sculpture too. This month, two events present the evidence. One is a survey of his whole work in bronze, amounting to 69 pieces, which...
...think I recognize the source of Jago's wrongheadedness of this matter. It originates from a very poor reading--if he has actually read it, and is not merely regurgitating received ideas--of the novel Les Mandarins. In this novel, there is a dispute between two characters: Henri and Dubreuilh. It is in this novel, and within it alone, that the dispute between the characters centered on the question whether or not to publish a report on Stalin's labor camps. In viewing this novel as a roman a clef, there has been a temptation in certain quarters to identify...
...Christianborg Palace in Copenhagen, Prime Minister Jens Otto Krag intoned the news three times, according to historic formula: "King Frederik IX is dead. Long live Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II." The new Queen of Denmark is also the Countess of Monpezat since her marriage in 1967 to French Count Henri de Laborde de Monpezat, who changed his name to Henrik and became a Danish prince. They have two sons, Prince Frederik, 3, and Prince Joachim...
...think poor Mark Goodman has lost contact with reality, or at least the real world west of the Hudson. Would you really believe that some of us like it out here even better than we liked New York? LAWRENCE HENRI WHITMIRF. Houston