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...work, "that a woman could draw as well as that." He proceeded to teach her a good deal of his own almost cruelly precise draftsmanship, which has never been surpassed for subtlety. Other impressionists-Manet, Monet et al. -followed Degas' lead in drawing Painter Cassatt into their sunlit circle. From them she got the habit of subordinating form, space and texture to the pure play of light, and of giving her pictures a modest, if contrived, sketchiness...
...sunlit spring, Italy does indeed wear a sheen it did not have under the plumed bumblings of the Savoys or the sawdust imperialism of Mussolini...
...facility of the best surrealists and almost none of their nightmare overtones. "It is much easier," he says, "to terrorize than to charm." Magritte charms with jokes-in-oils like this properly bowlered, quietly defiant self-portrait (upper right), a wine bottle turning into a carrot (above), and a sunlit sky that casts no light on the earth below...
Bustle after 5. Wilder seems determined to get acquainted with as much of that population as he can. Between restless peregrinations, he settles for brief periods in the "house the Bridge built" in New Haven. It is a simple, sunlit house, perched on top of a hill; Wilder's sister Isabel keeps house. When he is there, he usually gets up at 7 ("The bell of Lawrenceville still rings in my head") and goes out for breakfast - sometimes to the railroad station, a three-mile walk. He eats whatever he feels like eating. "What did you have for lunch...
...morning of his first fight, Luis Miguel lay late in bed, eating nothing, drinking black coffee laced with cognac. At 2 o'clock his servants began the elaborate ritual of dressing him. At 4 o'clock he stood in the sunlit arena, facing a capacity crowd of 50,000 and a patter of unenthusiastic applause. Dominguin looked coolly at the crowd, and crossed himself. The gates opened and the first bull charged...