Word: ple
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tricolors and Parasols. This sim ple optimism, underlying the aggressive color, is the main difference between Fauvism and expressionism. Every where one turns in this show, pleasure is celebrated: the tricolores and red, white and blue parasols in Raoul Dufy's street scenes, the rosy theatrical vigor of Van Dongen's scene of a couple out side a brothel. The Hussar (Liverpool Night House), 1906, the slapdash but infectious ebullience of Vlaminck's still lifes. The best sight of all, though, is Matisse inventing the Mediterranean; it is amazing to find how deeply one's images...
...European design so successful? Is it because, as Italy's Giugiaro immodestly claims, "the level of taste is higher in Europe than anywhere else in the world"? Perhaps, though many Europeans concede that in some other realms involving taste on an even more rarefied level - painting, for exam ple - the center of action has left Europe for the U.S. or elsewhere. Indeed, though most new cultural trends begin in the U.S., Europeans say, they need filtering through the Continental sense of style before becoming internationally acclaimed...
...Tempest. Shipwrecks are what pass for plots here as the pseudoclassical hero washes up, island by island, it seems, across the Aegean and the Mediterranean, losing and finally regaining his wife and daughter in the process. Before their reunion, the wife becomes presumably the only matron in a tem ple of vestal virgins, the daughter certainly the only virgin in a brothel - peaks of survival which may outdo even Pericles' own. Shakespeare, the scholars say, wrote only the last three acts, and perhaps ought to be forgiven for them...
...dressing down. Though the Dutch were bound to suffer from their consistently pro-Israeli foreign policy over the years, many Dutchmen believed Van der Stoel's outspokenness - and Den Uyl's approval of Van der Stoel's views - goaded the Arabs to make an exam ple of Holland...
That Abbie Hoffman set a bad exam ple for John Mitchell and that the for mer chief law officer of the land was very impressionable...