Word: rue
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other people's monarchs." Almost everywhere Paris bespoke as much. Huge Union Jacks caught the spray from the Lalique fountains at the elegant Rond-Point des Champs-Ely-sees, and the Cross of St. George decorated the flower pots in front of a Pierre Cardin boutique in the Rue du Faubourg St.-Honor...
Financially this moment was the nadir of Picasso's life. He was living in the Bateau Lavoir, a studio building in Rue Ravignan. "No one," Kahnweiler recalls, "could ever imagine the poverty, the deplorable misery of those studios. The wallpaper hung in tatters from the unplastered walls. There was dust on the drawings and rolled-up canvases on the caved-in couch. Beside the stove was a kind of mountain of piled-up lava, which was ashes. It was unspeakable...
...fullest. Another original, Poet Gary Snyder, has said that Brautigan's work consists of "flowers for the void." Lawn offers plenty of rosemary for remembrance and, if Brautigan harbors any bitterness for a world that now sells used trout streams by the foot, he certainly wears his rue with a difference...
...Arthur Norman, chairman of the De La Rue Co. of London, commented somberly: "Over the past few years, the U.S. free-trade lobby has been very successful, generally speaking, in holding back the protectionist tide. That tide has now overtaken us temporarily-and we have to ask how long 'temporarily' will be." Belgium's Count Boël suggested: "I think the U.S. will remain faithful to a doctrine not of free trade, but of fair trade, to gain equality. We and the Americans recognize that the world has changed, that a new approach...
...Wayne. Far more interesting than the critical narrative are four interviews interspersed with glimpses of Ford movies. Wayne, Jimmy Stewart and Henry Fonda are all in their 60s; they are juvenile leads when they discuss the director with terror and awe. Better still is Ford himself regarding Bogdanovich with rue and deflecting questions about his aesthetics with "Yeah," "No" and "Cut." Ford knows what Wordsworth knew: "We murder to dissect." Damned if he will assist this callow intern in his operation...