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...piece suggests Mantegna in mood, it is closer to a modern painter in manner. "The colors," says Poulenc, "are very clear, primary colors-rude and violent like the Provence chapel of Matisse." Scored for chorus, soprano, and a sort of celestial band of horns and strings, Poulenc's 25-minute Gloria proved to be a work of sharply profiled contrasts, at times deeply reverent (in the manner of his opera Dialogues of the Carmelites), at times mischievous and almost jazzy. Among its memorable moments: the opening of the second section, "Laudamus Te," with the dissonant cry of French horns...
...years. The seasonal nature of his successes bothers Marks not a bit: "If I sell that many at Christmastime," says he, "what the hell do I care what they do in May?" And tormented parents who hope that Marks's imagination may be flagging are in for a rude shock: he has already completed an "absolutely sensational" ditty for Christmas 1961 titled I'll Be a Little Angel. Sample lyrics...
...years, Dubuffet worked the back streets of Paris, painting little bistros and corset shops, jazz combos, and a host of men and women in the misery of routine (Woman Removing Her Chemise, Gallant Woman Removing Her Panties). There were also closeups of earth and paintings resembling graffiti, the rude scribblings found on walls throughout the ages. In 1944 Dubuffet got his first Paris show. Even for a city that had just been liberated, this was almost too much freedom to bear...
...make his way to Israel before returning to the U.S. He made his own way by hitching rides on passing trucks or jeeps, even in boxcars on the occasional trains that passed; often he slept in the mud huts of natives he had befriended along the route, shared their rude fare at mealtimes...
...Gavel. When U.S. Delegate Francis O. Wilcox brought up the same unpleasant item of Communist subject nations, Rumania's Mezincescu, clearly feeling he had not been noisy or rude enough before, interrupted with a frenzied, podium-pounding display. He shouted that Assembly President Frederick Boland was partial toward "supporters of the colonialists," and Khrushchev again took off his shoe and thumped his desk with it. To restore order, President Boland pounded his gavel until it broke. "Because of the scene you have just witnessed," Boland coldly told the delegates, "I think the Assembly had better adjourn...