Word: spaciousness
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Last week London's renewed interest in many-minded Pablo Picasso was whetted by a big, swank show of paintings from the School of Paris at the spacious old Lefevre Galleries off St. James's Square. Eight Picassos of different periods (he has had eight so far: Realist, Toulouse-Lautrec, Blue, Rose, African, Cubistic, Neo-Classical and Surrealistic) were surrounded by canvases by Bauchant, Bonnard, Braque, Dali, Derain, Dufresne, Dufy, La Fresnaye, Leger, Lurçat, Matisse, Miro, Modigliani, Pascin, Redon, Rousseau, Rouault, Segonzac, Soutine, Utrillo, Vuillard...
...Washington, D.C. In the U.S. section of 102 paintings, critics found as great or greater pleasure in Bernard Karfiol's big, soft Summer; John Marin's Sea with-Red Sky, a small canvas with a whipped cream lather of white paint which at 60 feet carried a spacious sense of foaming ocean...
...becoming England's monarch. As the Duke of Clarence, he bestowed his ardors on a Mrs. Jordan, an actress, to whom he was faithful for many years and who bore him twelve children. At Teddington, not far from London, he used for his extraordinary menage a charming and spacious 18th Century brick palace. When the death of his niece, Princess Charlotte, moved him up to second place as a regal candidate, he kicked Mrs. Jordan out. After ascending the throne, he lived in the Teddington palace with his queen, Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen...
...Wright's design for the Blackbourn family of Minneapolis (income $5,000 to $6,000), which reduced the merit of Royal Barry Wills's design to that of a safe investment. For the Smiths of Wyncote, Pa. (income $10,000 to $12,000), Aymar Embury's spacious Colonial house appeared as dignified as all get-out, Harrison & Fouilhoux's severely glass-walled house as daring as the devil...
...once-again-prosperous French Riviera. One hotel leased an entire island, which it promptly covered with tents. Another, at fashionable Cap d'Antibes. has put up tents in its gardens, erected a string of midget-sized bungalows on its beach. Despite the spacious comfortable hotel rooms only a few yards away, diplomats, statesmen, cinema celebrities have preferred to live like beachcombers in abodes which for the most part lack plumbing, hot water, screens...