Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reuther; Milton Murray* of the Newspaper Guild; onetime Socialist Emil Rieve of the textile workers; from the left: the furriers' Communist boss, Ben Gold; red-hot Michael Quill of the transport workers, who has been denying for years that he is a Communist; the white-collar workers' pink Abram Flaxer. All that weary Phil Murray hoped to get from such a committee was a formula for peace...
...Pink & Blue Beginnings. Already schooled by his father, an art teacher, Picasso went to Paris at 19 to rule, not to worship. He did go around to see the paintings of Toulouse-Lautrec, whom he admired enormously, "but all the same," Picasso decided, "I paint better than Lautrec." He set out to prove it and for three years painted starved, laundresses, absinthe drinkers and grave, bearded beachcombers in blue. Nowadays they seem a bit stagy and sentimental; Barr suggests that they reflect Picasso's "room without a lamp, his meals of rotten sausages, even his burning a pile...
...while Picasso tried pink. His blue period "gave way to the more natural style and melancholy sweetness of a long series of circus people." His Boy Leading a Horse (see cut) which even a know-nothing in art could see was first rate, has, says Barr, "an unpretentious, natural nobility of order and gesture which makes the official guardians of the 'Greek' tradition such as Ingres and Puvis de Chavannes seem vulgar or pallid...
Happy Birthday (by Anita Loos; produced by Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II) shows what a frightening assortment of drinks in a Newark ginmill did to-and for-a prim, plain-looking little librarian (Helen Hayes). On any realistic basis, abstemious Addie Bemis, loaded with pink ladies, whiskey, sloe gin and champagne, would doubtless be violently sick by 10 o'clock; but Happy Birthday is far from realistic, and by 11 o'clock gaily gyrating Addie has copped herself a husband...
...pink and purple Bathers was among Renoir's first postgraduate masterpieces. It took hundreds of preparatory drawings and three years of painting to finish, but with The Bathers Renoir got around to combining his new-found "living and restless" line and the vibrant, light-filled color which impressionism had given...