Word: swirl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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GEORGES ROUAULT, at 83 the eldest of the living French masters, is coming to the end of his career in a swirl of glory. His heavily larded oil paintings seem to glow with ever brighter colors. His reputation is steadily increasing. Because Rouault himself stood apart from the Paris-born art movements during his time, his work seems to transcend the fluctuations of contemporary tastes; the appeal of his religious subjects speaks more clearly with each passing decade. Rouault's powerful paintings glow in the mind like images in Gothic stained glass. With their strange, archaic quality, one critic...
...eyes of all Paris were on Andre Louis Gody, a 17-foot Zouave who stands heroically in effigy beneath the Pont de 1'Alma, where Emperor Napoleon III put him nearly 100 years ago to honor a victory in the Crimea. When the river waters swirl around Gody's calves, Parisians know that the Seine is in flood. Last week the water reached well above Gody's elbows. As the floodwaters poured down into the city, raising the river crest to nearly seven meters above normal, all of Paris' quais were engulfed. The priceless works...
...flashy production numbers. Not content with one run-through of "Alexander's Ragtime Band," for example, the entire cast pursues the piece in any mimicable dialect--all with gusto and girls. The finale is especially typical, with everything in motion. A gigantic pedestal moves up and down, banners swirl, toe dancers spin about, and jugglers far in the background fling objects into whatever space remains. The effect is quite fulsome, and with the exception of Marilyn, a wholesome and generally entertaining musical...
...than six minutes. Then he makes his touchdown and the Lions win. That's the kind of an old pro's trick Layne pulls all the time. He's dynamite when he smells that goal line." How Rough Can It Get? The intricate play patterns that swirl into organized confusion are often tricky to follow...
...indeed. Once directors only wanted to make a buck or two. Now they are involved with Rollo and Conscience. They conduct, far more than does the State Department, the foreign relations of the U.S. They shape, far more than any President, the destiny of the Republic. Around them should swirl a tide of argument-but current argument, not the argument...