Word: well
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other enthusiasts have worked out the chances of getting hit by meteors. They think it might be well to clothe a space ship with a thin "meteor bumper...
...might look like a wild burlesque of one by Delacroix. But in the mid-19th Century, Delacroix' own hunt pictures had seemed like parodies of Rubens'. Lorjou's muscular distortions and crackling, fiery colors were more emotional than artful, yet there was art in them as well...
...Assurance. For delicate tastes there were the smaller, cooler and more careful paintings of France's top second-rankers, including Pierre Tal-Coat (44), Andre Marchand (42), Francis Tailleux (36) and Edouard Pignon (44), who unabashedly follow Picasso's and Matisse's lead and do it well. If their geometrized landscapes and still lifes said nothing very new, they at least spoke with assurance. Originality, they could reasonably argue, is less important than mastery...
...sort one sees at the moment of going to sleep or awakening, transformed and made monumental by the order and clarity of the painter's arrangement. A huge, expansive man whose rolling eyes and fierce mustache make him look like the villain in a melodrama, Dominguez may well become a new hero in French...
Last week Rose gave part of the answer in his newspaper column. For the Digest's French and French Canadian editions, Maurice Chevalier, an old Rose friend who knows his Times Square as well as his Montmartre, had turned the Rose prose into "galloping Gallic." Wrote Billy, after a look at Champagne, Danseuses et Stylographe: "You could have knocked me over with an escargot...