Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Litwak is already hankering after the mantle of famed Primitive Henri Rousseau (1844-1910), the Parisian customs inspector who retired to paint leafy jungle fantasies, without ever having seen a jungle. Says Litwak of Rousseau: "Plenty to criticize, but all right." He prefers him to Pittsburgh's late John Kane, long considered the No. 1 U.S. primitive, who painted fussy toy trains and muscular self-portraits. Nowadays the field is crowded with such deliberate amateurs as upstate New York's 85-year-old "Grandma" Moses (TIME, Oct. 21, 1940) and fellow Brooklynite Morris Hirshfield, 73-year-old retired...
Clearest example of the new trend was the size of Georges Bidault's brand-new Mouvement Républicain Populaire in France. Its moderate progressivism attracted both Breton fisherfolk and Parisian shopkeepers. The strong religious base of the M.R.P. was not the prewar political Catholic group, which descended from the Royalist, anti-Dreyfusard reactionaries; the M.R.P. drew its ideology from the liberal social justice encyclicals of Leo XIII and Pius XI. In economics it was left of the U.S. New Deal; but in political outlook it had much in common with Thomas Jefferson...
...musical comedy star (Merle Oberon) sprains her ankle and is treated in her dressing room by a handsome French interne (Charles Korvin). Ah, Paris-with the horse chestnuts in bloom! Miss Oberon's touring troupe moves on, but she has decided to be a poor Parisian housewife. The years slip by and Dr. Korvin obviously isn't getting rich at his research; but Merle seems happy with her wifely chores and her roly-poly daughter. Very suddenly, one day, Dr. Korvin suspects his wife of infidelity, and without asking for explanations, he runs off with the baby...
Mistinguett, ancient (seventyish) Parisian music-hall favorite whose shapely legs have outlasted two World Wars, saw Marlene Dietrich perform in Paris, cooed to a lobby listener: "Marlene was marvelous, but, chérie, you know, she's really getting very...
...cameras-one for overall pan shots, the other for intimate closeups. After laying out the racy boulevards and teeming suburbs of Paris (as seen by a financier in a hovering plane), Author Remains dives down to the corner of a little tearoom for a close-up of a plump Parisian mother fretting over her daughter's newly modish knee-high skirt...