Word: mals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BROOKLYN-Eastern Parkway. Watercolor was the first medium that Joseph Mal-lord William Turner attempted and he continued in it long after he became England's great romantic painter. This major exhibition of his watercolors, lent by the British Museum, embraces his genius from the disciplined draftsmanship of his student days (the earliest was drawn at 14) to later seascapes so impressionistic in color and spare of design as to border on the abstract. Through...
...uncle of Movie Actor Marcello Mastroianni) casts planks and lumps of bronze and gives the tortured results such names as Hiroshima, Violenza, Pearl Harbor. Together, they look like a junk heap of civilization from which blooms a brute mess of skulls, limbs and deformities: machine-age fleurs du mal. Through March...
...Tate's early troubles came from subordination to the trustees of the 140-year-old National Gallery and members of the stodgy Royal Academy, which had managed to be hostile in turn to Constable, Turner, Whistler, the Pre-Raphaelites, French impressionism and most everything else that subsequently mattered. "Mal à la Tate," punned a peeved Punch. At first the trustees forced the stepchild Tate to accept Victorian tearjerkers that no one will even borrow today. The Tate did not succeed in winning its complete autonomy from the National Gallery until 1955, and it had to wait till after World...
Unclothed Blonde. French interests bought back the spring after World War II, began advertising Perrier as the common man's drink, using endorsements from bicycle riders and track stars. Although the company shies from medical claims, French doctors often prescribe Perrier for mal de mer and morning sickness. Taken by itself or as a mixer with liquor or wine, Perrier is selling at the rate of 208 million bottles a year-and the company produces another 245 million bottles at other springs under five other brand names...
...this drama but by such spooky things as a postcard from him with Oscar Wilde's famous line "For each man kills the thing he loves," the girl sensibly fled to England and finally emigrated to California. Apollinaire in turn sat down to write La Chanson du Mal-Aimé, a long poem that swings between lyrical passion and harsh, direct descriptive talk in a way which was to put a lasting mark on modern French poetry. The nights in Paris all drink gin And fall asleep with their streetlights on. Trolley cars are mad machines To make green...