Word: hiver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...talent was evident at 22 in his abrupt, progressive vision of the orchestra at Paris' Cirque d'Hiver. In his private art he experimented with new ways of seeing; he tried his friend Monet's impressionism, exhausted the old masters, learned much from the arrangements of lights and darks painted by his contemporary Whistler (though Whistler called him "a sepulcher of propriety"). In his The Birthday Party, he used the blurry-faced male figure-who commissioned the work and approved of its final, unfinished look-as a foil to set off the foreground scene of a mother...
Commandeered for the annual benefit gala of the Union des Artistes (a sort of French Equity), Paris' one-ring Cirque d'Hiver acquired a second center of attention with the midnight entrance of Brigitte Bardot, 27. Combining the Empire look with what copycats in New York's Garment District currently push as the "proffered bosom," the tiara-topped screen queen was the focus of all eyes-save those of Playwright Marcel Achard, 61, an Academy "immortal" who was ensconced next to her in what appeared to be a state of stunned euphoria...
International Showtime (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Don Ameche plays host at "Christmas at the Paris Circus," taped at the Cirque d'Hiver in Paris...