Word: miser
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nobby foreheads and fishlike smiles of a large group of busts portraying the politicians of the Louis Philippe government dominate the exhibit. Here Daumier's style stands out. Pinching the features into blobs and twists, he skillfully expresses a particular miser or nearsighted fool. Originally molded in unbaked clay and painted as studies for satirical lithographic portraits, these small caricatures look like papier mache puppet heads. Four of the 36 original brown heads are exhibited here for the first time in the United States. The other 32 politicians appear at the Fogg in bronze or terra cotta casts...
...countries in hopes of eluding an increase in taxes and a decrease in the franc's value. It is too easy for self-righteous Americans to condemn this behavior. Anybody who has not seen his own fortunes dissipated by recurrent invasions, inflations and devaluations cannot fully understand the miser mentality of many Frenchmen and other Europeans...
Their average life span is 21 years shorter than their fellow citizens'. Their unemployment rate is nearly 40%, ten times the national average. Some 50,000 American Indian families live in miser able huts, shanties, tents, abandoned cars. Half of their children never finish high school. Their sickness, illiteracy and poverty rank among America's worst. Their sad estate last week moved President Johnson to declare in a message to Congress: "No enlightened nation, no responsible government, no progressive people can permit this shocking situation to continue...
Through the years in which Cactus Jack's legend grew, he enjoyed the tales as much as the public. They called him as taciturn as Coolidge, and he boasted that he had gone eight years in Congress without making a speech. They called him a miser and-though a multimillionaire-he employed his wife as full-time secretary and cook. He doted on hunting, fishing, poker and pungent Mexican cigars, loved his sour-mash bourbon and glorified convivial nipping as "striking a blow for liberty." Many a blow was struck with congressional leaders of both parties and with...
...Briand. But she wasn't merely a name sleeper; she democratically slept with all who could afford her huge fees. "Don't forget," she once told her friend Colette, "that there is always a moment in a man's life, even if he's a miser, when he opens his hand wide." "The moment of passion?" asked Colette. "No," replied Otero, "the moment when you twist his wrist...