Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Settled down in Paris, he works in a studio as neat as a laboratory. There are no still lifes and no models in sight, because he never paints directly from nature. "I discover my picture on the canvas the way a fortuneteller reads the future in tea leaves," he explains. "I never visualize a picture in my mind before starting to paint. On the contrary I believe that a picture is finished only after one has completely effaced the idea that was there at the start...
...Hard Part. The details of Koerner's painted stories are never made up; he includes only things he has seen, and usually he does it vividly enough to convince others of their reality. "The hardest thing for me is to find the right details. I do it just by thinking back. I'm depressed then, and my stomach aches. But sometimes a friend will call me and say, 'Henry, I was out driving and I found the scene you used in such & such a picture.' It's never true of course, but it makes...
...that an education campaign would not be enough. His experience in California had taught him that voluntary health insurance is the doctors' best weapon against compulsory, Government-regulated plans. Said he: "We want everybody in the health insurance field selling insurance during the next two years as he never sold it before ... If we can get ten million more people insured in the next year and ten million more the next year, the threat of socialized medicine in this country will be over...
...incident that changed her whole outlook occurred one day when she read the lips of a woman who was saying to a group of people: "Never mind Marie- she's deaf." Suddenly Marie realized that for years she had been kidding herself and giving way to a form of vanity that made her refuse to face facts. Soon afterwards she got herself a hearing aid. With it, she got a new life...
...generation of quibbling, cult-minded, critical cognoscenti has called New Orleans jazz many things, from "a rich and frequently dissonant polyphony" to "this dynamism [which] interprets life at its maximum intensity." But Louis grins wickedly and says: "Man, when you got to ask what is it, you'll never get to know." In his boyhood New Orleans, jazz was simply a story told in strongly rhythmic song, pumped out "from the heart" with a nervous, exciting beat. To Trumpeter Louis, jazz is still storytelling: "I like to tell them things that come naturally...