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...Dickens'. At this early stage one can see, especially in the Rose Period, that urge toward nostalgic generalization that repeatedly crept into Picasso's art in later years. The circus performers in Family of Saltimbanques (8) are conceived in the manner of a Watteau fête champêtre, and Picasso apparently tried to rival the psychological tension of glance and gesture in that master's work; their fragile simplicity is idealized; it is a bruised, poor Arcadia, but Arcadia still, inhabited by a species of post-industrial Noble Savage...
During World War II, American forces liberated miles of beaches along France's CÔte d'Azur. Ever since, it has been a struggle to keep them free...
...claim was located in Antibes. The Murphys arrived in France with three toddling children in 1921. Cole Porter introduced them to the Côte d'Azur, then unheard of as a summer resort. Delighted with it, the Murphys purchased a house they named Villa America and cleared a stretch of beach called La Garoupe. Gerald painted huge, careful canvases that are fascinating precursors of Pop art. But both the Murphys were more interested in a life of quality and beauty than in art. "The Divers' day," as Fitzgerald translated it in Tender Is the Night, "was spaced...
...trustees of San Francisco's Millard Fillmore Institute were delighted to confer on any applicant a variety of "honorary and meretricious" titles ranging from "Doctor of Generosity" to "Doctor of Pinochle Sciences." All he needed was $10. A Latin motto made the point clear: Ad populum phaleras, ego te intus et in cute novi' (Loose translation: "You may think you're hot stuff, but we know you, buster...
...George Balanchine, a genius who can design, with seemingly equal facility, enduring masterpieces or tremendous trifles. His latest work, which was given its world premiere by the New York City Ballet last week, is 22 minutes of slight but effervescent foolery. The title is the giveaway: PAMTGG (pronounced Pam-te-guh-guh) stands for "Pan Am Makes the Going Great...