Word: parisians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Parisian Poet Blaise Cendrars was trying to describe Artist Marc Chagall. Hardly anyone else in 1911 thought him worth describing. Paris was just getting used to Les Fauves (see above), and bright young men from all over Europe and the U.S. were there, learning to paint in the new ways. But Chagall did not want to learn anything...
...rightist Parisian daily Epoque angrily accused the foreign minister of "torpedoing" Blum's "most delicate mission." Said L'Aurore: "This is not public diplomacy. This is yelling on the fairground. . . . Bidault talks to the Americans in a manner best calculated to upset them-by threatening blackmail." Bidault hastily said he had been misinterpreted...
...biggest cinematic hullabaloo since the opening there of Hollywood's Air Force. The occasion: the first night of Ivan, Part I. Outside, would-be spectators created mob scenes comparable to those in Eisenstein's Ten Days That Shook the World. Inside, however, the audience was sharply divided. Parisian sophisticates, perhaps not yet grown up to Eisenstein's post-sophisticated refurbishing of primordial cinema devices, booed and stomped and hissed at the all but Shakespearean intensity of the great static closeups, the poetic registrations of emotion, the grandiose, dancelike gestures of the players, broad as bad opera...
Today her most popular song is Bonjour Monsieur Saint-Pierre, about a young Parisian girl who, having died, pleads at the gates of heaven...
...heel. The decor-very modern—was shabby; the champagne-very expensive-was poor. The worn-looking, faded singer who came on half an hour after midnight matched the setting well. She had frizzled brown hair, a little black dress and cork-soled shoes. She was called La Piaf (Parisian argot for sparrow...