Word: jacquese
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Though successful as a life-size Picasso textbook, the show lacks the human dimension so important to Picasso himself. It is a passage in art history devoid of autobiographical data. No explanations, statements, or personal details relieve the impersonally exhibited mass of masterpieces. Picasso would disapprove:" It's not what...
Across French TV screens flashed the handsome face of Premier Jacques Chaban-Delmas. For once Chaban didn't look like the golden boy of French politics. Somber and severe, he appeared, reported Le Monde, like "a wounded man."
Alas, the Premier chose to make his speech on the very day that the taxes of his fellow Frenchmen fell due. Critics on the left and right pronounced themselves unconvinced, and anti-Chaban demonstrators staged a march from the Place de la Bastille to the Hôtel de Ville...
It was billed as a Stanley Cup playoff match between the New York Rangers and the Toronto Maple Leafs. As the evening progressed, it looked more like the Ringling Bros. Circus. Late in the last period at Madison Square Garden, New York's Vic Hadfield began trading punches with...
So the arguments spin on and on, and the more each side insists on the rationality of its argument (what can be more rational than a discussion of the costs?), the more one is drawn to agree with Clarence Darrow, who observed a half-century ago that "questions of this...