Word: parise
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In all the explorations so far, no one has yet agreed on machinery. Many are reluctant to funnel Western aid through the U.N. itself. NATO Secretary-General Paul-Henri Spaak suggests that NATO be used for the purpose, but this too meets with opposition-in the minds of touchy beneficiaries...
The son of Italian immigrants, Paolozzi was born in Edinburgh, but got his start as an artist by chumming with surrealists in Paris. He prowls junk yards and factory dumps for his materials, which he assembles elaborately. Paolozzi begins by pressing his bits of industrial detritus into soft clay, which...
Blockade Runners. World War I only made Philips grow bigger faster. To circumvent the blockage of the North Sea, the company outfitted its own fleet of fast blockade-running ships. With the home market protected from competition, the brothers Philips steadily pushed into new lines, made X-ray tubes for...
Director Truffaut, who also wrote the script with Marcel Moussy, tells a story that derives from his own childhood experiences in a reform school. His hero is a French schoolboy (Jean-Pierre Léaud), about twelve years old, who lives with his mother and father in a Paris tenement...
None of this is dazzlingly new; Kafka clearly is a grandfather of the movement, and Sartre and Camus are at least unacknowledged uncles. New Realism's most important idea is to show life scrubbed clean of theatricality, and in the novel's present period of torpor, the Paris...