Word: jeans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...revised vision of the presidential role, Giscard can be haughty and even arrogant. No better example exists than the furor aroused by a gift of diamonds he received from former Central African Despot Jean-Bédel Bokassa. When the issue was first raised in October 1979 Giscard stubbornly refused to divulge details. Last month the President disingenuously justified the delay in facing the issue by saying that "no one ever asked me the question." He said that the diamonds had been sold, and the proceeds donated to charity. That donation, it turned out was made only a month before...
...upstairs, at 2 a.m., there don't seem to be many fishermen or climbers--two women argue about sizes of Bean's Oxford Cloth Shirtdresses, Bean's Jean Skirts and Bean's Kettle Cloth Skirts. They settle on one and head for the footwear department, stopping in front of a display of the Maine hunting shoe, L. L.'s first inspiration. "They're so cute," one of the women says. "And besides, I need something to go shopping...
...dear Jean-Pierre and Nicole...
...demands of the art market. Brandish ing their wormy palettes, these venerable shades mock the belief in linear progress that was once a byword of modernism. If anyone in 1960 had dared suggest that dozens of moldering eminences from the salons and academies of preimpressionist France, forgotten men like Jean-Pierre Alexandre Antigna, Frangois Bonvin, Joseph Bail or Alphonse Legros, would some day be in the museums again and become the subject of excited scholarly debate, he would have been thought not merely perverse but plain...
...artists in the show, like Manet himself, or Gustave Courbet or Jean Frangois Millet, have secure reputations as masters. Almost all the rest, whose paintings have been exhumed and whose biographies have been researched with indefatigable diligence by the show's curator, Art Historian Gabriel P. Weisberg of the Cleveland Museum of Art (where the show originated last November), are minor figures. But that is not the show's point. Rather, what Weisberg and his colleagues have tried to do is re-complicate our view of the 19th century and fill in some of the details...