Word: noms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been painting since 1930 ("but never every day, only by attacks") in a style that ranges from Impressionist through surrealist to abstract. What made him decide to have the show? "You can give just so many away. Friends really don't want any more." How about that nom de pin-ceau? "I saw Epfs in a Danish magazine, and I noticed that it couldn't be pronounced without making a grimace. And since people grimace before my painting...
...with the world of West Coast rock. Her former publisher, Atheneum, refused to publish Cold Iron, because the company felt the book's seamier sides would damage the author's standing with her regular readership. She then offered it to McCall, which brought it out under a nom de plume concocted from the name of her agent, Roberta Pryor...
...bottom of a corpulent cutie, the label on a bottle of liquor, the barroom floor, all bore the enigmatic letters: CPLY. It is the maddeningly unpronounceable nom de plume of William Nelson Copley, a Manhattan artist-collector-philanthropist who says he slipped the vowels from his name out of deference to John Singleton Copley, the 19th century American painter...
Kouyoumdjian believed in his characters with the ardor of an outsider yearning to be let in. He married a Greek countess, Atalanta Mercati, and called his son Michael Arlen, the nom de plume he had permanently adopted for himself. His daughter he called Venetia-after the heroine of one of his novels. As Michael Arlen, he became a celebrity from Mayfair to Detroit in the days before the word and the condition were tired and devalued. Now his son, a TV critic and essayist, has written a wry and moving but far from fond memoir of his parents. He avoids...
...Cato," the nom de plume of the early 18th century Whigs Thomas Gordon and John Trenchard, who wrote Cato's Letters: Or, Essays on Liberty, Civil and Religious. Also for Cato the Censor, the Roman statesman. Publius, whose name was taken by Hamilton, Madison and Jay, was a Roman moralist of the 1st century...