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Once upon a time, Paris was an artist's paradise. The ambiance was inspirational, the scenery delicious and, most important, around every corner waited a spacious, high-ceilinged studio flooded with the luminescence of the Parisian sky. Dirt cheap, too. The School of Paris was virtually born in the Bateau-Lavoir, a Montmartre dump so named for its ramshackle resemblance to a laundry barge. Picasso, Juan Gris, Utrillo and Braque all lived there before World War I. La Ruche (The Beehive) in Montparnasse was a roachy, twelve-sided wooden structure with wedge-shaped studios where Modigliani, Soutine, and even...
Died. Lucie Valore Utrillo, 87, widow of famed Parisian Impressionist Maurice Utrillo, an ambitious woman who married the aging, alcoholic painter in 1935, shut him up in a suburban home, turned away his friends, curtailed his output to 20 paintings a year, allowed none to be sold until they had reached a price high enough to suit her (around $25,000 at his death in 1955); of heart attack; in Paris...
...house painter before achieving recognition for his meticulous drawings of humanized machines and mechanized humans. He produced four one-man exhibits in Paris, illustrated more than 50 books, wrote two children's fables (Poor Shaydullah, Seven Simeons), designed ballet settings, women's clothes, murals, and a Parisian cathedral altar-all of which he created in the belief that "any object which is beautiful and useful" becomes...
...grandfather, who helped found the company in 1886. Aiming at the overfed women of the Reich's middle class, he marketed corsets under such formidable names as "Colossus," "Hercules" and "Grenadier," the last with a whalebone skeleton guaranteed to be indestructible. When, in 1918. a flamboyant Parisian couturier named Paul Poiret launched an anti-corset crusade, Triumph faltered so badly that it had to take up the manufacture of toweling, a sideline that survives today...
...long life dedicated to subversion. His personal Ho Chi Minh trail has led him through the widest range of revolutionary activity experienced by any living Red leader. En route, he shed identities like snakeskins, metamorphosing from cabin boy to pastry cook, from poet to guerrilla leader, from Parisian photo retoucher to pseudo-Buddhist monk. His name-changes alone would fill an address book (some 20 have been pinned down, ranging from Nguyen "the Victorious" to "Old Chap" Wang). But beneath the chimeric legend lies a purposeful, pragmatic Communist whose aim is the conquest of all Southeast Asia...