Word: valentine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...artists. For some reason, the beneficiaries of the party were neither painters nor sculptors, but rather the Musicians Emergency Fund. They were left far from broke by the baroque affair. Sales of tickets and catalogues for the opening night of the show, a tribute to the late dealer Curt Valentin, netted a tidy 12,000. This week recuperated New Yorkers could pay $1 and return for an unjostled look...
...bears. Little bears. Black bears. Brown bears. Mamma bears. Great strong hammer-sickle thick-coated rocket-powered Soviet bears. They eat 700 Ibs. of lump sugar a day and some day their teeth will fall out, but meanwhile they have been so well trained by Valentin Filatov that they are the essential stars of the Soviet circus. They roller-skate, ride bicycles and scooters, and hang from whirling trapezes. Three of them draw a troika. Two of them fight, wearing boxing gloves. They hook and jab at each other's noses with grizzly accuracy (of course, a bear...
...descent of flares, but its effect on Ivan and his comrades shows in their gropings for reassurance from one another. Even Masha, a girl medical officer with eyes like a grey squirrel's, helps in her inarticulate way; in one somberly lovely scene, she shyly lets a captain (Valentin Zubkov) pursue her into a forest of birches as the camera, darting on owl's wings, follows them through the receding halftones of black, grey and silver...
...Messianic dreams which have haunted Western civilization for ages," sometimes with "frightful results." Foreign Policy Analyst Theodore Draper did a detailed study of Castro's Cuba, decided that "Fidel's ego may give the Communists as much trouble as it has given many others." China Expert Valentin Chu discovered enough evidence of widespread famine in Red China for a 7,500-word article that was reprinted in six languages...
Nearly all the works on view came from widely scattered members of the artist's family, and almost half of them have never before been seen by the public. Though Lautrec's Parisian period-the era of the raffish La Goulue. Valentin the Boneless, and high-kicking Jane Avril-was largely responsible for his fame, it is apparent that his childhood on the family estate in southern France shaped his destiny. The show in Rennes is a warmhearted family album of portraits and sketches of the people and things that surrounded the crippled painter after he fell...