Word: nosedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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It is not hard to see why the 19th century trail breakers despised Bouguereau (Cézanne cried, "J'emmerde Bouguereau!"; Matisse fled his studio in anger). Though his brush stroke was immaculate, his subject matter tended toward soaring echelons of well-stuffed nymphs in the buff, ruddy satyrs...
Upon being told that Christopher Columbus was not the first to discover America, a bulbous-nosed, sleepy-eyed Charles de Gaulle murmurs: "Eh bien, I congratulate him for that."
THE ART OF THE PUPPET by Bil Baird. 251 pages. Macmillan. $17-50. Puppeteer Bil Baird's book is not a history but an appreciation of the theatrical form whose genesis, lost in time, goes back thousands of years. Punch and Judy were born before Diarist Samuel Pepys, who...
Leo Nosed Out
Junior halfback Bobby Leo was nosed out by Dartmouth's Bob O'Brien for the fourth spot in a backfield that included unanimous selections Bob Hall of Brown Ron Landeck of Princeton, and Bill Wilson of Cornell.