Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sextant's six crews spent six months attaching themselves to one motion picture production unit after another and hanging on like lampreys, shooting miles of film in close study of directors and stars practicing their trade. The cameras were soon recording an insider's view. Watching Swiss Director Bernhard Wicki at work in Rome on The Visit is like watching a big, half-mad sheep dog forever nipping at the flock, loping in circles, barking "Go home!" at people in his way. Ingrid Bergman is every inch an actress as she sits in a makeup chair and tells...
Exchanging Collections. Interfaith ministerial conferences that meet regularly have sprung up all across the country. A number of Catholic institutions have organized summer retreats for Protestant ministers. Several churches have adopted Swiss Lutheran Theologian Oscar Cullman's proposal to exchange Sunday collections. In San Francisco recently, Sacred Heart High School gave a love offering for the poor to a nearby Lutheran church. The pastor responded by setting up an award for the outstanding student at Sacred Heart...
...were not rich, they bought contemporary art steadily until the walls barely showed through the paintings. By 1924, buying most of the time directly from artists, they owned Renoirs, Bonnards, Vuillards, Vallottons, Cezannes, Manguins, Hod-lers, Rodins, Maillols, Redons, Matisses, Rouaults, Utrillos, and just about every other French or Swiss artist that mattered at the time...
...crates of paintings and graphics. On one early trip Dr. Arthur bought a nude that he praised as having "cool, exact, beautifully executed lines, and whose intensely clear colors appeared like such a relief from the general air of muggy sensuality." It turned out to be by a fellow Swiss named Felix Vallotton, a member of the Nabis and soon a lifelong friend of the collectors...
...collectors became passionate supporters of the artists to whom their taste led them. Bonnard, Vuillard, Matisse, Rouault and others were frequent guests at the Hahnlosers' winter home in Cannes. Swiss artists, professors and writers gathered weekly in the living room of the Villa Flora, where, surrounded by Van Goghs and Cezannes, they debated art with such fervor that the meetings were called "Revolution...