Word: wining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...watch open-air performances by some 1,200 actors, dancers and musicians on seven different stages. Noisily, they cheered the general in his sky-blue uniform, the parading troops, the flat-hatted cowboy who galloped up to the general and handed him a horn filled with red Chilean wine. Some of their loudest cheers were for Eleanor Roosevelt,* head of the U.S. delegation to the inauguration...
...small Left Bank studio and struck out on his own. When he felt like it, he went off for long painting excursions through the French countryside. But his independence never made him complacent. For his first major canvas, The Drinkers, Segonzac hired two hoboes to pose drinking red wine; it took three solid weeks of posing, twelve layers of paint (and gallons of wine) before he was satisfied. Each morning during his jaunts to the country, he got up at sunrise, donned heavy farmers' boots, went off to paint steadily until sunset. He still seldom takes time...
When Artist George Grosz was a youngster just learning to draw, in Germany 45 years ago, his painter mother gave him a piece of advice. Pointing to a picture of a well-fed monk holding a glass of wine aloft, she said: "George, when you can paint a glass of wine so that it looks as if you could pick it right out of the picture, then you'll be a real painter." Artist Grosz never forgot his mother's words, but it was a long time before he cared to follow them...
...like to think his latest release is the start of a new trend. Mr. Thorpe could do, I'm sure, a magnificent job on Mark of Zorro or The Corsican Brothers. The latest retake of Les Miserables, the ninth, I think, should be further proof to Hollywood that old wine often tastes much better in new bottles...
...best character in The Happy Time is the lovable dissolute, Uncle Louie, played by Curt Klasner. Louie is a lazy, shaggy fat man who drinks wine out of a water cooler. He is hilarious as the stooge in Desmond's description of how to snatch a chorus girl's garter. Perpetually half-drunk, his arm wrapped affectionately around his water cooler, Uncle Louie steals every scene he stumbles into...