Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From a flying trip to Paris, Kootz had brought back nine oils. Priced at $3,500 to $20,000, seven were sold in the show's first week. The New York Times's good, grey art critic, Edward Alden Jewell, dazedly noted the waving checkbooks and concluded that Picasso was "the supreme hero of the hour. I don't know about the bobby-soxers, but were Picasso suddenly, himself, to appear in New York, he would be pursued with all the ardor to which Frank Sinatra has long been accustomed...
Actually not all of the nine paintings on show were distorted, but most of them were poor. They ranged from a seasick-looking sailor with form and features rearranged to suit Picasso, to a 1944 Plante de Tomates which made perfectly good sense-except that the plant appeared to be growing from a puddle of light rays instead...
...Museum, looked solid and sensible enough to illustrate a children's picture book. The sixth stage of the same lithograph was an airy arrangement of less than a dozen thin lines which looked as innocent as a Cro-Magnon cave painting -but less knowing. Another series of nine lithographs, entitled Two Figures, began as a rather sweet and sentimental pair of nudes. In the end they emerged as a nightmare vision of two twisted and highly ambiguous beasts (see cuts for steps 1, 6 and 9). Frank Sinatra himself never changed a girl more...
Died. Edwin Scrymgeour (rhymes with primper), 80, teetotaling, Bible-quoting Scottish Prohibitionist who trounced Winston Churchill in a 1922 election upset, served nine years in Parliament, was himself soundly defeated when he tried to outlaw alcohol in Britain; in Dundee, Scotland...
Solicitude is nine-tenths of stellar possession, and MGM's solicitude began with the choice of transatlantic passage. As an R.A.F. pilot, Deborah's husband, Anthony C. Bartley, had shot down 15 confirmed planes. But in her new studio's opinion, it was inadvisable to risk flying flesh & blood that is worth many times its weight in gold. So Deborah and Tony crossed on the Queen Elizabeth...