Word: seene
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...others. It was not a Bourbon Street reunion of the jazz giants, nor were they stompin' at the Savoy. The man tinkling out Happy Birthday on the piano-with authority-was none other than a fellow named Dick Nixon, President of the U.S. "I've never seen the place like this," exclaimed a venerable White House butler as he distributed glasses of champagne from a silver tray. "It sure has lots of soul tonight...
...life, the long lunch more and more a relic of the past. Huge supermarket chains dispense packaged, preprocessed foods at a speed?and a price?that is fast making the kitchen stockpot and the corner charcuterie obsolete. In Paris, said newspaper ads last week, 300,000 people have already seen Steve McQueen in Bullitt, and the lines are still long. A house specialty of Le Drug Store, now ten years old and still In, is an ice cream sundae with chocolate sauce and a shot of bourbon. They call the result "Coupe Old Crow...
...facility at digesting official dossiers became legendary and led to his own decision-making shorthand style. "Vu" meant seen but waiting for better arguments. "Soit" meant so be it, but not the best solution. "Oui" meant O.K., but he still had reservations. Only the best dossiers got a "D'accord," meaning that the matter was settled. Pompidou began to enjoy politics with a gusto, and it showed even in his complaints. "I am bombarded with daily problems," he said one day. "I handle dossiers of a burning actuality. Everything is urgent at Matignon [the Premier's office]. But when...
Sixty-six illustrations of Constable's signal accomplishments may now be seen at Washington's National Gallery, all from the private collection of Paul Mellon, president of the gallery. It was Constable's moral feeling for the countryside of England, outgoing Gallery Director John Walker points out in the catalogue, that is his principal achievement. "More than any other artist, he was able to embody in paint Wordsworth's 'Impulse from a Vernal Wood,' " Walker writes. "He remains among artists the high priest of pantheism, the primate of a new religion of natural beauty...
...sober existence." In his sketches are dozens of studies of clouds. He strove to capture the sparkling play of light on leaves, grass and stones. To achieve this, he daubed little blobs of white and color onto his canvases, making no attempt to blend them-as can be seen in his enchanting little study of Rushes by a Pond...