Word: salons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spare, stylized prose that became the most pervasive literary parlance of the century. For all her celebrity as a writer, Stein's fame lies as much in her life as her work. She kept the long-running artistic crap game going for nearly 50 years in her Paris salon. Though time has adjusted some of Gertrude's accounts, reputations really were made and broken at 27, rue de Fleurus...
...been told about the sentiments," Tanaka said, "but now I know how real they are." When he met with 13 leaders of the 400,000-member National Student Center of Thailand next day in an ornate salon of Government House, the encounter turned into a limping dialogue of mutual incomprehension. Since the students overthrew the military regime last October, they have become the most powerful political force in Thailand, overshadowing the caretaker government of Premier Sanya Dharmasakti. They complained to Tanaka that Japan was exploiting Thai labor, polluting the air and water with wastes from Japanese-owned factories, and generally...
...banker of Egyptian lineage. Dark-haired and beautiful, she might have grown up in that age of fin de siecle elegance to become one of those delicate butterflies that flutter through the paintings of Renoir. But even as a child Mira Alfassa had had mystical experiences, and the Paris salon she commanded was a circle of devotees of the occult. In 1914 she visited India with her second husband, French Diplomat and Writer Paul Richard. In the French colonial city of Pondichéry, Richard introduced her to the Indian visionary Sri Aurobindo, a former revolutionary turned mystic. She immediately...
...dominated the high-fashion world of the 1930s with her art deco-and surrealism-inspired collections; following a stroke; in Paris. Born in Rome, "Schiap" became a French citizen in 1927 and began her career in Paris by designing sweaters featuring bold peasant motifs. From her salon beside the Ritz, she scored many fashion firsts, among them tailored evening jackets, the use of synthetic fabrics and the color, shocking pink. Schiaparelli closed her couture house-where her designs had been sold for as much as $5,000-in 1954, and later reappeared in the spotlight as the grandmother of Celebrities...
...Angeles parking lots, horse postcards, the whole post-Pop iconography of deadpan images-is merely an absent-minded rumination on fact, painting reduced to bland, mechanical transliteration. The method precludes light and atmosphere, and silences all dialogue between brush-work and image. New Realism is the limp, ineloquent salon...