Word: les
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...system worked fine except for two obstacles. First, lenses and film worked slowly in 1928, and once the late afternoon shadows had set over the gridiron, movies were difficult to make. Modern technology cleared up this difficulty so that now even night game mov- les look like they were filmed at high soon...
Nearly 30 years ago, six noisy young French composers (Les Six) rebelled against their musical elders, rocked Paris with florists' catalogues and locomotives set raucously to music. Since then, two of the six are all but forgotten. Two more became familiar names to U.S. concertgoers: Darius Milhaud, who constructs brassy, dissonant symphonies at California's Mills College, and Arthur Honegger, a hit the past two summers at Tanglewood. U.S. movie audiences heard Georges Auric's scores in such movies as Caesar and Cleopatra. That left No. 6 unaccounted for. Last week he reached...
Poulenc (he pronounces it heavily almost as Poolonka) likes to describe himself, with a fast, toothy grin, as "both a saint and a devil." Last year, his frothy, obstetrical opera Les Mamelles de Tirésias -in which one character changes sex on stage and another litters the footboards with a good share of his 40,000 babies-created the noisiest scandal in Paris since the premiere of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. Like the Rite, however, it is still going strong...
...World War II France's most popular composer, partly because there was no political blemish on him. He holed up on his 17th Century Vouvray estate (where he also makes wine), refused to play for the Germans, and stalled them off on the production of a new ballet, Les Animaux Modèles, by telling them repeatedly: "Ah, it is not yet finished." Now finished, it is a Parisian favorite...
...Palais de Chaillot was rebuilt in 1937, for the Paris world's fair of that year, and has since been used mainly as a museum. To the Palais de Chaillot this week came delegates to the third general session of the U.N. General Assembly. (Parisians called them "Les Onusiens" from Organisation des Nations Unies.)* Noticing a musee ferme sign on a glass door of the Palais, a Frenchman in overalls snarled: "What do they mean, 'museum closed?' What do they think is going on in there...