Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what is a wry commentary on the flagging pace of Paris painting, the most sensational artist at the moment is Jean Dubuffet, who frankly prefers a drawing by a lunatic to one by Leonardo, patterns his painting on the world of children, wall scratchers, psychopaths, the self-taught and simpletons. Already past 40 when he had his first one-man show 21 years ago, he has since turned out close to 2,000 oils plus countless gouaches, drawings, collages and assemblages that incorporate every material from butterfly wings to actual dirt...
...lines and replaced wooden vats with 500-gallon, glass-lined tanks. They have also begun to sell their wine in French food shops, where the return is greater than it would be from sales overseas. "We were shy about selling in French supermarkets and épiceries," says Mumm Executive Jean Couvreur, "but we find that it doesn't hurt our image...
...continue to cultivate the export market. Britain remains the biggest foreign buyer, with 5,181,185 bottles last year, but the U.S. is a fast-growing second, with 3,478,522 bottles. French champagne makers are unworried over competition from U.S. wines. "They are our avant-garde," says Robert Jean de Vogüé, head of Moët et Chandon. "When people come to appreciate wine, they will appreciate French champagne." The French companies do resent the fact that U.S. makers are permitted to label their product champagne. In England and on the Continent, only wine from the actual...
...clichés that lie in clutches on practically every page ("El presidente's face went white with anger . . . 'I have had men shot for saying less!' "). Readers who like to spot the fictional distortions of real-life people in Robbins' books (Howard Hughes and Jean Harlow in The Carpetbaggers) will have no trouble identifying lightly veiled counterparts of the Rothschilds, Trujillo, Swindler Serge Rubinstein, and Porfirio Rubirosa...
...minute film Un Dance d'Amour, produced and directed by Jean Genet, had been scheduled as the last of four movies to be shown in the course this Spring. But, after section men previewed the film late Wednesday night, Robert H. Chapman, associate professor of English, decided that the movie was not "fit for such general consumption...