Word: steins
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...fascinated by Surrealist theories of automatic drawing and writing; of the importance of chance encounters and intuition; and above all, of rebellion. (He still claims to be an "anarchist, but not violent.") He also met the cream of bohemian Paris, from Jean Giraudoux to Max Ernst and Gertrude Stein. In 1931, after a year hunting game on the Ivory Coast, Cartier-Bresson had a fateful chance encounter when he came across a photograph by the Hungarian Martin Munkacsi: three boys leaping in the waves of Lake Tanganyika. "I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant...
With only a week to go before the annual carnival, the council allocated each House $125 for “stein clubs, open houses or similar social events.” The council also added $500 to grants previously awarded to 27 student groups planning activities...
...Harvard men’s heavyweight crew sliced through the water—both from the rain droplets above and the Charles River below—to handily defeat Ivy rival No. 8 Brown and capture the Stein Trophy on Saturday...
...notified the public of its decision in real time. And then the world celebrated: Cocoon was played out in every Florida retirement community, marriages moved on to deeper problems, the porn industry was democratized and talk-show hosts got a new way to tell Bill Clinton jokes. --By Joel Stein...
...cannon fodder and take from Matisse the leadership role within the avant-garde. Georges Braque and Andre Derain, onetime Fauvists, defected to Picasso's camp. In time Picasso would even usurp Matisse's position in the affections--and worse, in the collection--of Matisse's once devoted patron Gertrude Stein...