Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...caricature or deep-meaning fantasy. For a highly unusual glimpse of the middle ground, the ground plowed up by psychoanalysts and cultivated more subtly by writers from Flaubert to Thomas Mann, Manhattanites last week repaired to the Pierre Matisse Gallery to see 15 paintings by a 30-year-old Parisian known as Balthus...
...death in Switzerland last October of a pleasant Parisian gentleman named Jean de Brunhoff ended the adventures of one of the world's most endearing elephants. Jean de Brunhoff was the creator of Babar, the elephant whose life and high times he illustrated in a series of picture books read by children the world over. Babar, his Queen Celeste, his kindly adviser Cornelius, his mischievous little cousin Arthur and his friend the Old Lady, were all invented during bed-time stories told by Artist de Brunhoff to his three little boys. Between 1932 and 1937, five Babar books were...
...Surrealism is partly Spanish in origin and its distinguished leaders include Parisian Spaniards like Joán Miró and Salvador Dali; 2) Artist Hayter went to Spain last year not on his own but at the invitation of the Leftist director general of Fine Arts, José Renau, who encouraged him to paint a score of flaming canvases with such titles as Man-eating Landscape...
...Parisian suburb of Villejuif (Jew City) there is a police laboratory, part of whose job is the dissection of bombs and fireworks. There last week chemists, army officers and police gingerly examined 197 wooden packing cases, taken in a recent raid on branch headquarters of the Csar, a Rightist organization accused of plotting the overthrow of the French Republic (TIME, Dec. 6). The raid had also netted three Hotchkiss machine guns and 71 automatic rifles, but these cases contained hand grenades. The firing lever of each grenade was held down by a band of paper. Since many were damp...
Married. Lucy Tew, daughter of Manhattan Socialites Mr. & Mrs. William H. Tew; to tall, slender Georgian Prince Georges Dadiani, Parisian perfumer (Matchabelli); in an hour-long Eastern Orthodox service; in Manhattan...