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...Matisse used to design the outline of a chair, then design the colors, and fill them in. Or he designed the color and then the chair. But one comes after the other. Moi, je fais tout d'un coup [I do everything at once]-contour, matiere, surface, color, line, all in the same stroke." Thus Paris Painter Pierre Soulages, at 37 a roaring commercial success and winner of several international art prizes, describes the effort behind his huge, bulking canvases-massive, broad strokes of dark paint laid on the light background with brush, board, strips of leather and cardboard...
ITHACA, N.Y.,-- While Harvard lingers cautiously behind, only occasionally lifting one foot out of the time-honored je parle-tu parles-il parle school of elementary modern language instruction, Cornell University has stepped into a national spotlight of curiosity and mixed criticism with a language program aimed at bringing a student to learn a language rather than learn about...
OFFENBACH : "What a master of all sorts of cleaning music! And how considerate a composer! Tales of Hoffmann is studded with injunctions like 'Je commence,' 'Silence,' 'Attention,' or 'Voilà,' handy indications that one is about to switch jobs, which allow a moment to put away the broom and get out the dustpan. Yet how haphazardly is his cleaning music placed...
...religious ceremony next day, Grace was "close to tears" in the Post, but for the U.P., "uncontrolled tears coursed down [her] cheeks." How did she make her responses this time? "Je veux (I will)," said the U.P. "Oui," said the Post. "Oui, Monseigneur," said the Times. "Oui, je veux," said the Herald Trib. Finessed Newshen Kilgallen: "[It was] barely audible...
...damned"), he too met a different kind of Waterloo. "His Grace," spits Harriette, ". . . has written to menace a prosecution if such trash be published . . . When Wellington sends the ungentle hint to my publisher, of hanging me, beautiful, adored and adorable me, on whom he had so often hung! Alors je pends la tête! . . . Good-bye to ye, old Bombastes Furioso." Then she proceeds to relate how the duke, fresh from his triumphant campaigns in Spain, hurried straight to her house one night only to find Argyll there before him. When Wellington knocked, Harriette dressed Argyll in her nightcap...