Word: womanfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Modest Retreat. "I have enjoyed everything a rich woman can have in life," Madame De Maria announced after a visit. "And all I desire now is a modest retreat where I can read and reflect. I'd like to be able to chat with a shepherd in a field at sundown and munch hard-boiled eggs." With that, she asked the town fathers to let her pay for the restoration of Bargème's ruins and take up residence in the town...
Bach & the Beatles. Though Joan Miró is now 75, the freshness and fascination with which his blue eyes see the world around him have not changed. For 60 years, he has been painting these forms-sun, moon, star, woman, man, birds, flowers, sparks. Of course he paints them in his own way-and they are instantly recognized the world over. Though he insists that he only draws what he sees, his images are usually a surreal shorthand. An asterisk denotes a star, a curlicue a snail, a cartoon figure with popeyes and a Minnie Mouse behind becomes a kind...
...molds made from found objects, that brood like so many legendary rocs amid the gardens of the Maeght Foundation. One of his most recent sculptures is the massive marble Moonbird, who, in Miró's language, is meant to suggest not only moon and bird but also woman. Moonbird summons up half-forgotten racial memories of fertility-cult objects, altars, Astarte and menhirs. In so doing it suggests the deeper roots of Joan Miró's art. Through dream symbols and childish cartoons, through the very innocence of his spontaneous line, he poetically evokes the rhythms...
...army, which it depicts as heroic, was in fact undisciplined and corrupt. The Simba rebels, portrayed as raping terrorists, were in fact relatively disciplined. Held in thrall by a powerful black dawa (magic), the Simbas were forbidden to steal from the whites or even lay hands on a white woman-whose touch, they believed, was evil...
They were Leonard Bernstein received a standing ovation; a woman sat in the previously all male press gallery; and a lot of bearded, beaded students saw the inside of the Park for the first time. Women in long black dresses walked by hot dog stands looking for their husbands as the Red Sox home's traditional brisk beer business fell off sharply...