Word: manners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Matisse asserts his own lyric manner in top form. As large a chef d'oevre as the Piano Lesson shares in common with the brilliant little Seated Odalisque an extraordinary clarity and extreme purity of expression...
...Ripening. At week's end all signs were that De Gaulle was right. In the approved manner, quiet President René Coty let the crisis "ripen" for three days, then called in Socialist Guy Mollet, and asked him to form a government. When Mollet admitted defeat, Coty turned to René Pleven, head of the small U.D.S.R., whose chances of success were, if anything, less than Mollet...
...Spot News. In Rotterdam. N.Y., traffic violators are given along with their summonses a questionnaire in which one question asks: "Do you feel the manner of the police officer was polite and proper under the circumstances...
Comes the crackup. One day some bravoes in the neighborhood make sport of Marina on the street in the traditional Mediterranean manner. Heartsick, she runs home and sinks into her young man's arms. As a matter of fact, her knees are so weak with love, or something, that she sinks almost to the floor. Naturally, the young man invites her into the same bushes her mother has been using. Unable to refuse, she moans: "I want...
...Alastair Sim is exactly the thing as the genial assassin. His simultaneously prunelike, condescending, and Machiavellian face and manner weave much distinguished nonsense in and out of the philosophic bomber's career--a career whose explosive beginning has included an overbearing headmaster, an overstuffed businessman, and an oversmug dictator. All were neatly vaporized before the war, during which the bomber quit his activities temporarily because killing dropped from an art to an occupation. When we meet him now, he is back in practice; his prey is Sir Gregory Upshott, an international water-muddier. Sim stalks him intently and wittily, particularly...