Word: parise
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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In his cluttered gallery on Rue Laffitte in Paris, stacked floor to ceiling with rolled canvases and folios of prints, Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse had their first one-man shows. (Cézanne was 53 when Vollard "discovered" him in 1892 by buying five oils...
Secret of Success. Vollard was a bizarre figure: no wonder other dealers saw him as a métèque, an interloper, before they learned to fear him. He arrived in Paris to study law in 1890, coming from the insignificant French colony of Reunion Island. He had black...
Faced with overpowering U.S. competition on world markets and suffering from the commercial flop of Concorde, the French aviation industry needs restructuring into a single, strong entity. Observers reckon that little by little, Dassault will be moved into the orbit of government-owned Aérospatiale, the biggest aircraft company...
In 1826 a German flimflam man named Johann Nepomuk Maelzel appeared in the U.S. and began wowing the natives with his traveling show of mechanical marvels. His treasures included an automated trumpet player, a device called the panharmonicon that could duplicate the sound of a 40-piece orchestra (playing Beethoven...
Third World spokesmen are generally skeptical of such overtures, fearful that they might perpetuate "cultural imperialism." The officials prefer to go it alone. To that end, Third World representatives will meet later this month in Kinshasa to lay plans for expanding their press pool. And they are almost certain to...