Word: henry
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aped Speeches. With their special talent for tearing things down without having any real alternatives to offer, the French all across the political spectrum were increasing their criticism of De Gaulle. One Henri Tisot has become the No. 1 comic of France simply by aping De Gaulle's speeches and changing only one or two words-calling for the "depigeonization" of Paris statues instead of the "decolonization" of French African territories. In the last six weeks, a book called The Court has sold 80,000 copies: it pictures De Gaulle as a bewigged monarch with a king-sized...
...Died. Henri Charpentier, 81, famed French chef who in 1894 invented crepes suzette by putting together a "sweet never before served to anyone" for the delectation of the then Prince of Wales, later Edward VII; of a heart attack; in Redondo Beach, Calif...
...enough to want his son to have the most respectable of careers, preferably engineering. But André was already painting, and his best friend was the young ruffian Maurice Vlaminck, whom Papa Derain would not let into the house. Then one day an older painter by the name of Henri Matisse saw some of André's work, spoke so glowingly of his talents and prospects that Derain's father finally relented. Maurice and Andre rented a shack on an island in the Seine, and their careers finally began...
...lady stockbroker named Genevieve Habert was on her third visit to the exhibition of paper cutouts by Henri Matisse at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art when she became disturbed by a picture called The Boat. It seemed unnatural to her that what was meant to be a reflection in the water should be more detailed than the sailboat itself. Mrs. Habert checked with the catalogue, marched up to a guard to announce her discovery: The Boat had been hung upside down...
KENMORE: Brigitte Bardot, the current titleholder, plays slut (again) in THE TRUTH, but under Henri Georges Cluzot's direction, she turns in an acceptable reasonably convincing performance. This film should not be written off as just another Bardot bottom twitcher...