Word: idyl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...here we Gauguin!) is startled to find that he is an artist of astonishing power-a Rubens, perhaps, with a touch of Renoir. Within a year he is in Paris, painting his broad-hipped housemaid by day, panting for her by night. But the late-blooming bohemian's idyl is broken by Edith, who shows up to buy a painting and promptly recognizes the lamster. Will he turn worm and let himself be stuffed back into a boiled shirt? Not, the reader can bet his burnt sienna, until expatriate geniuses drink Pepsi-Cola instead of Pernod. For wives...
...been busy filming It Started with a Kiss, Debbie flew over the top of the earth and into Hollywood. "What about it, Debbie?" reporters asked. "Will you contest the divorce? America is waiting." Friends had taken the trouble to give her a report by telephone on the Las Vegas idyl while her plane refueled in Winnipeg, and Debbie was ready. "It comes as very much of a surprise to me," she said with a straight face. "The position in which I was placed made it necessary to give my consent. But I don't need to. They would have...
That is how nymphet-nuzzling Victorian Lewis (Alice in Wonderland) Carroll evoked a little girl's seaside idyl. The lines might well apply to nine-year-old Hilary Bray and her discovery, in Devil by the Sea, that little girls who walk along the shore can expect to find more than sand castles. The friendly knee that innocent Hilary encounters is the shank of an old derelict whom she meets at the amusement park in her seaside home town of Henstable. Later that afternoon Hilary sees the old man lead another little girl across the marshes. Watching his "clumsy...
While his family is forced to escape to western Europe, Zhivago escapes from the partisans for one last reunion with Lara. It is a weird, snowbound, dreamlike idyl on the edge of disaster, rapturous with love but also with an almost Chekhovian paralysis of the will. Eventually Lara is swept away to temporary safety by her old traducer, Komarovsky...
...occasion for this idyl was the second concert in a series called Music at the Vineyards, held at the century-old Paul Masson Vineyards in the Santa Clara Valley, 40 miles southeast of San Francisco. The inspiration for the series came from four remarkable brothers-Paul, Herbert, Alfred and Norman Fromm. All of the Fromms except Herbert (who is a fulltime organist and composer) make their living in the wine trade, and regularly funnel handsome sums into the support of music. When Norman decided to give California some really fine summer music ("the kind the concert manager...