Word: zucca
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...time Delanoë made that call, the curators had moved to provide that context. Visitors to the Historic Library are now informed in several languages that the pictures were shot by André Zucca, a Frenchman hired by the German magazine Signal to capture scenes of Paris flourishing under Nazi rule. Zucca's bosses' gave him extremely rare and valuable rolls of Agfacolor film to shoot his busy shoppers, café-lounging lovers, parks filled with parents and playing children, and ultra-chic Parisiennes sporting the last word in fashionably enormous eyewear...
Takizawa does greet the mostly Japanese well-wishers after his show; two days later, while waiting for Akira Onozuka's Zucca show to begin, he goes virtually unnoticed. Compare that with the presence of Tom Ford, creative director of the Gucci Group, who caused major gridlock at the Les AnnEes de Pop opening at the Pompidou Center. "They don't have the sex factor," Self-Service's Koller says of the Japanese designers. "Fashion today is about being a pop star...
Helen Jerome's poem, Nichavo, set to music by Mana-Zucca to become the darling of student singers, distinctly translates the word (with the change in spelling) as "What's it matter...
...Mana-Zucca's most famed song, a favorite of lusty singers like Baritone John Charles Thomas, is I Love Life (so I want to live and drink of life's fullness, take all it can give ...'). This she wrote in 40 minutes, to a lyric by her husband, Bond Broker Irwin Cassel. whom she married after his 46th proposal. They have a son, Marwin (portmanteau for Mana-Irwin) Cassel, 15, whom Mana-Zucca calls "my best composition...
Author of such vocal successes as The Big Brown Bear Went Woof; J'Ever-Hm? I Did! Bitty Buzz; Rachem; Nichavo, Mana-Zucca has also written orchestral pieces, a piano concerto, a raft of piano pieces. Four top-notch publishers- Schirmer, Presser, Fischer, Church-snap up her output, which is steady. Songs & snatches come to her at the piano, in her garden in Miami, where she spends seven months a year, or at her dining table. Soon to be published is another Mana-Zucca work: Spinach and 'Leven Other Funny Children's Songs. Said Mana-Zucca last...