Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the exhibits were a couple of canvases as sharp and literal as snapshots made in bright sunlight. The curious thing was that Bérard had painted them without models, purely from imagination. When he used a model, as in his portrait of a Parisian torch singer, Mlle. Damia, the literalness disappeared; Mlle. Damia was waxy, unsmiling, delicately pushed out of shape. A few months before he died, Bérard had portrayed himself sitting like a somewhat damp but proud Bacchus on a beach. The painting conveyed the subtlety of his seemingly careless draftsmanship and the atmospheric shimmer...
Paris, basking in the fine Easter sunshine, was invaded by hordes of eager tourists. As they took in the sights or eyed the smart Parisian girls in their spring dresses, they were accosted by furtive "characters who hissed: "Have you dollars?" Most of the time, the answer was a blunt no. The bottom had fallen out of the currency black market...
...Name Is Aquilon (adapted from the French of Jean Pierre Aumont by Philip Barry; produced by the Theatre Guild) tells of a cocky, penniless young Parisian (Jean Pierre Aumont) with a romantic need, and a remunerative knack, for telling lies. He lands a job with a high-toned black marketeer and in no time arouses love or lust in all the boss's womenfolk-wife (Arlene Francis), daughter (Lilli Palmer), secretary (Doe Avedon). He himself goes for the daughter and takes all evening...
...France, and the young man instinctively rushed to the defense of the Jewish captain. In one of the few political acts of his life, Proust circulated petitions for Dreyfus' release. The echoes of the affair rang in his novel years later; after the bigoted behavior of his aristocratic Parisian friends, Proust could never write long about "society" without bitterness...
Countess Kristina, who is the heroine of the first half of the book, becomes Emperor Karl's secret agent in World War I; her scurryings around in Parisian underthings, waving secret documents, make Upton Sinclair's Lanny Budd look like a timid traveler in an old suit of B.V.D.s. When Kristina collapses into the arms of Spain's Alfonso XIII, her sister, Countess Zia, takes over for the between-wars decades. When at last, after more than 700 pages, Hitler and the Russians start divvying up what's left of the Dukay world, many a reader...