Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Adelaide Montorzi had frequented several call houses, one of them a decently furnished apartment in a respectable district of Rome. Watching two of these places, the cops identified two furtive but highly important visitors: Communist Giuseppe Sotgiu, president of the Rome provincial council, and his wife Liliana, an existentialist painter...
Died. Baron Erik Fleming, 60, court silversmith of Sweden, architect, sculptor and painter, whose more than 7,000 elegantly wrought coffee sets, platters and vases in gold and silver won him international fame, and whose strikingly simple, mass-produced designs were reflected in household appliances in thousands of postwar homes; in Stockholm...
French Philosopher Denis Diderot had the intellectual brilliance that sparkled in an 18th century drawing room, but he sometimes found less conventional ways to display his native gifts. When a lady painter who was doing his portrait objected that his clothes hid his neck, the eminent thinker silently retired behind a curtain and reappeared a moment later "as naked as a worm...
...should never have dared to suggest it," the lady painter fluttered, "but you have done well and I thank...
There were other stars. Although the fine play of Melgs has often been taken for granted, nevertheless against Yale he was a great guard again, foreing a fumble on the second play from scrimmage to stop one Eli drive, and teaming with Captain Tim Anderson, Art Painter, Dick Koch, John Maher, Ted Metropoules, Bob Morrison, Bill Frate, and Orville Tice to end later ones...