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Cezanne, who took his own measures to insure that his models stayed awake, posed Vollard on a stool precariously balanced on a rickety platform. Even so, the hulking dealer fell asleep and crashed to the floor. Cezanne was furious: "You wretch! You have upset the pose! You should sit like an apple. Who ever saw an apple fidgeting?" After the first 100 sittings, Cezanne cooled off sufficiently to announce: "I haven't done so badly with the front of your shirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Bell Ringer | 1/1/1951 | See Source »

...such a wretch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Singing In Church | 9/11/1950 | See Source »

...giving birth to a demon child, while young men (and older) were haunted by the "shapes" of comely matrons who at midnight dropped down from a beam and snuggled close. The devil worked overtime; he was described by one hysteric as "a short and black man-a Wretch no taller than an ordinary Walking Staff ... he wore a high crowned hat with straight hair; and he had one Cloven Foot." Another accuser casually referred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ye Old Boy | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...card player in order to make his childhood sound tragic. He flies into a rage when he is called from dinner to attend a wounded woman who is having a premature baby. And yet the author has regarded Suprugov so compassionately that the reader may feel compassion for the wretch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Stethoscope Report | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...features the cop on the Beat (George Murphy), a good-hearted gamin (Butch Jenkins), and sundry other people you want to avoid. Worst of all it has Margaret O'Brien. This observer has always felt that M-G-M's Margaret is an ill-tempered, abnormal, sniveling little wretch; the sooner she reaches the awkward age the better...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Rogues' Regiment | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

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