Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from amiable, and the issues they raised might be serious enough to cause some permanent political realignments. But between now and election day, those minor voices would recede into a distant, thin scream which would be pretty well drowned out. The major candidates would occupy the center of the stage...
Included in the film are photographs of Matisse's The Peasant Blouse, made at 15 stages of progress over a period of five months. The painting began with a reasonably naturalistic and (for Matisse) timid sketch from a model. Every subsequent stage looks as complete as the final one, though not even the last version seems "finished"-a Matisse seldom does. In spite of the drastic changes Matisse made as he went along, every version brought his original conception more boldly into focus. His admirers might have accepted any of the early versions as a masterpiece, but not Matisse...
Died. Dame Lilian Braithwaite, D.B.E., seventyish, tart-tongued grand old lady of the English stage (The Vortex, Arsenic and Old Lace); of a heart ailment; in London...
Plus and minus signs are about equally distributed as the Varsity enters the belt-buckle stage of pre-season practice. Here are a few of them...
...breath-taking solos, although dark-eyed Prima Ballerina Yvette Chauviré would certainly draw a few gasps with her cameolike dancing. Few of the 16 ballets would be familiar-and none would be as broad and nappy as U.S. ballets like Billy the Kid. Chicago's big stage was just right for the Paris ballet's specialty: brilliant spectacle in the great tradition, plus the bold and polished choreography of a greying little man known to balletomanes the world over, Serge Lifar, a onetime Diaghilev star. (Americans were not likely to see Lifar dance, however. He has been...