Word: stein
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MILTON M. STEIN...
...parodist's pic. Under the muscular stoicism and the man-of-the-world expertise, there is a vein of provincial naivete, and the celebrated bare style is really an elaborate piece of purl and plain knitting, learned in part from that fancy needlework artist, Gertrude Stein. Far from being economical, it is in fact more prolix than, say, Thomas Mann's high mandarin, a fact proved some years ago by parodists in the New Statesman and Nation, who vainly attempted to translate a passage from Death in Venice into 150 words of Hemingway. It could not be done...
...showed taste and a fine instinct for good investment. He was one of the discoverers of Modigliani. In one moment of sound judgment he bought 60 Soutines for $50 apiece-long before Soutine was well known. In his acquisitions, Barnes was uninhibited by ethical considerations. When his friend Leo Stein, brother of Gertrude, offered to sell his valuable collection of impressionist paintings through Barnes, the collector repaid Stein's early kindnesses to him by reporting that he was unable to find a buyer, snapped up the lot himself for an undisclosed price, which Stein's friends bitterly described...
...flesh-colored skirt sliced in panels from hem to hips. At a ringside table, a fat cat with slowly inflating eyes made an impassioned grab and caught the center panel, pulling her toward his lap. For his pangs, he was shot in the face with his own stein of beer. "Cut," called Director Norman Taurog, and a wardrobe woman rushed forth to sponge the foam from Juliet's snowy thighs...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:307 p.m.). Rare films of a rare time and place, Paris in the '20s, re-create a Who's Who of the Lost Generation: Ernest Hemingway, Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Colette, Josephine Baker, Mistinguett, Marilyn Miller, Harpo Marx...