Word: rues
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...warren of studios and flats known as "the wash house," at No. 13 Rue Ravignan in Paris, Pablo Picasso in 1907 painted a canvas that was to become historic. Space was carved out in simple planes as if it had been hacked away with an ax. Two figures on the right presented faces as grotesque as African masks. It was the first cubist painting, Les Demoiselles d' Avignon. Almost half a century later, cubism, although short-lived, ranks as one of the most influential movements in art history. To salute its achievements, the Venice Biennale this summer is exhibiting...
Pound & Co., Graves retorts: "Why can't all the critics be wrong? Who decides on this year's skirt-length? Not the women themselves, but one or two clever man-milliners in the Rue de la Paix. Similar man-milliners control the fashions in poetry. There will always be a skirt-length...
...Vile & Rue. As a sideline. Sammy began lending money to reporters, later went into it fulltime, despite the fact that borrowers were "always casting their vile and rue on me." His rate was usually 5% a week, but it multiplied when a newsman borrowed on the day before payday; he thought that the heavy demand at that time justified a higher return...
...year ago Saigon's Rue Catinat was a glittering, neon-splashed midway choked with shoppers, promenaders and fun-seekers. Last week its sidewalks were all but deserted. Shop after shop stood with windows boarded up. At a cabaret once loud with the jokes and brawling of red-bereted paratroopers, sailors and the képis blancs of the French Foreign Legion, all was quiet. By the hundreds and thousands the French, with no place in the new independent state of Viet Nam, were leaving the city they had once made famous as "the Paris of the Orient...
There is roller-skating at Bal-a-Rue, with Benny Alcuin at the organ...