Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Artist Grandma Moses, 88, who rarely strays far from Eagle Bridge, N.Y. for subject matter for her famed primitives, was unimpressed with New York City. "It's nice to be here," she admitted cautiously, "but the city don't appeal to me." "As picture material?" somebody asked. "As any material," she replied, firmly. Then she took the train down to Washington, where she got the Women's National Press Club annual award for art, and the even more impressive compliment of unwavering attention from President...
They had plenty to dig. French Jazzman Hugues Panassié had been applauded for bringing Louis Armstrong to blow at his Nice festival last year (TIME, March 8, 1948), but criticized for leaving out U.S. boppers. For this year's International Jazz Festival, rival Jazzman Charles Delaunay was playing it safe by inviting both the bop artists and two-beat specialists from half a dozen European countries and the U.S. The French radio blared out the goings-on for ten days...
...Union Square. "I've got pages & pages of sketches of men and girls drinking out of that fountain," she says. "You know, most people lift one leg when they drink. Some put their hands behind them. Others embrace the bowl. But it's so quick and nice - nice-like birds, they drink and fly away - and I have a devil of a time. You could easily pose a person there, of course, but that wouldn't be it. I struggle for months & months to make it look as momentary as it really...
This skein is thoroughly tangled from the moment Character Wylie comes down to lunch brooding about cancer and finds the botanist's wife, name of Yvonne, who is brooding over Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male. Wylie quickly recognizes her as "a nice bitch . . . with a father complex" and wins her sympathy by telling her what unkind reviews TIME gives his books. Yvonne tells Wylie all about her experience in the conservatory...
...really expected Painter Henri Matisse to bother to answer the attack that British Royal Academy President Sir Alfred Munnings had made on his work (TIME, May 9). But last week Matisse did. Sitting up in bed in his suburban apartment at Nice to talk to a TIME correspondent, the 79-year-old master gently contradicted Horse-Painter Munnings' views on modern art in general...