Word: somberness
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...believe," asked one worker, "those damned lying machines or good old Ike?" Disk Jockey Johnny Grant went to the microphone and bellowed: "Look, this is not a wake. We are not losing, and we are not going to lose." Hope died hard-but by 10 p.m. Pacific time, the somber recognition that victory was getting beyond reach hit the Nixon crowd. Almost as if by signal, the ballroom quieted, and the crowd began to drift away, leaving a loyal claque to see out the evening. Two women left in tears...
...Robert Henri, whose goal was to catch ''the living instant" in his boldly brushed portraits, the style of the Ashcan School painters varied from John Sloan's somber slices-of-life, the stark realism of Everett Shinn and George Luks and the darkling canvases of William (Slackens to the airy landscapes of Ernest Lawson and mystical pastorals of Arthur B. Davies. Until the 1908 show, recalled Everett Shinn many years later, "art was only an adjunct of the plush and cut glass...
...went for $106,000, but the main attraction of the evening was Sarlie's 29 Picassos-the largest number ever put on the block at one time. Highest price for a single canvas was the $134,000 paid by Swedish Collector Carl-Bertel Nathhorst for Femme Accroupie, a somber painting of Picasso's "blue" period. And by evening's end, Sotheby's had broken another record: the Picassos brought in $636,720, the biggest single sale of a living artist. Between the Picassos, ten Modiglianis and an assortment of Crises, Soutines, Braques, Rouaults and one Matisse...
...women from 41 nations. Blonde-tressed Norwegians in embroidered blue skirts mingled with black-haired Ghanaians in flowing brown and gold robes. Swiss Frauen sported delicate lace caps, and Icelanders regally balanced gold diadems with trailing white veils. Here and there through the colorful throng could be seen the somber black habit of a nun. Remarkably little feminine chatter disturbed the solemnity of the occasion: the twelfth International Congress of Midwives...
Last week Le Monde's sales indicated a period somewhere between uncertainty and crisis. Contained in Le Monde's 16 somber pages were reports on worldly woes, from the U.N.-to the Congo. But it was an article near the bottom of Page One that commanded the French citizen's closest attention. Signed by "Sirius," the piece predicted that unless Charles de Gaulle soon ends the Algerian war, France will plunge back into chaos worse than that from which he rescued...