Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Strange Ones. Striking adaptation of Jean Cocteau's Les Enfants Terribles; the story of an adolescent brother & sister living in a world of their own (TIME, July...
Mama Was Watchful. Daughter of a wealthy government official and distantly related to France's 18th century Jean Fragonard, Berthe took up drawing at 16 merely as a social grace. Mama Morisot traipsed along on visits to her instructor's studio, to keep a watchful eye on the proceedings. Berthe was clumsy at first, but within three years she was studying with Corot, learning to paint landscapes in his fashion...
Some of the most striking French fiction comes from precocious teenagers writing about teenagers. In Devil in the Flesh, 17-year-old Raymond Radiguet showed a boy drawn into a love affair with an older married woman and swamped by the first rush of passion. In Awakening, Jean-Baptiste Rossi, 16, told a startling but sensitive story of a love affair between a youngster and a Roman Catholic nun. In The Illusionist (written three years ago) 22-year-old Françoise Mallet, a Parisian housewife and mother, tells perhaps the strangest tale of all, that of a 15-year...
...Malaparte fortified his status as an anti-Fascist with the publication of Kaputt (TIME, Nov. 11, 1946), a gruesome collection of anecdotes about Nazi-Fascist cruelty. Kaputt was a sensational bestseller on the Continent, and made Malaparte one of Europe's leading apostles of nausea-a sort of Jean Paul Spillane...
...defending line will include ends Jean Dubail and Donald Rott, tackles Phil Muth and Ernie Verreos, and guards Joe Lysell and Leo Carosella. Muth and Verreos have distinguished themselves in Washington's first two outings, as has the hustling Dubail, who has blocked several kicks this year...