Word: compatriots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paris (Jacqueline Francois; Columbia LP). Unlike her world-weary compatriot, Juliette Greco, Chanteuse Francois breathes her Paris airs with the garlicky gusto of a clothesmonger in the Flea Market. Her best number, Java Mondaine, is a Gallic shrug at a titled ancestor "who put his head on a well-sharpened guillotine...
...sullen young Arab planted himself in the middle of the casbah street and refused to budge. A French private named Geronimo leaped from the jeep, and unlimbering his Tommy gun, faced the Moslem troublemaker. From the sidelines an old Arab shuffled forward and tried to soothe his compatriot: "Go home. Come on, don't be mulish.'' Before the old Arab had finished his plea, Private Geronimo's Tommy gun stuttered in reply, and the old man "collapsed softly, muttering to himself unintelligibly while his blood flowed down from the sidewalk to the cobbles of the street...
...ideas as possible has allowed Gerassi to paint in a number of different styles. There are very abstract red blotches on green backgrounds that have an affinity with Pollock and the Rorschach tests, as well as recognizable still lifes and landscapes. In this sense, Gerassi reminds us of his compatriot Picasso although the fluent shifts in style by Picasso are motivated by a more intellectual problem-solving mentality...
Though he thus barred himself from the fighting, Trumbull dreamed of recording it for posterity. In London he made a pilgrimage to the studio of compatriot Painter Benjamin West, who urged that Trumbull stick to small pictures that his one eye could compass. This led Trumbull to compress heroic compositions into canvases more concentrated and powerful than West's own. Returning after the Revolution, he traveled from New Hampshire to South Carolina to portray the VIPs of a Very Important Period, and to sketch the quieted battlefields...
Medal from Napoleon. Vanderlyn befriended his compatriot painter, Washington Allston, when both were visiting Rome. Their brush with the remains of the Renaissance encouraged both young hopefuls to try to paint great pictures instead of settling for good ones. Result: both sprinted too far too soon, and had to sit out their later years. Vanderlyn tasted glory first, when his grandiose Marius Amid the Ruins of Carthage caught Napoleon's eye. "Give the medal to that!" the Emperor ordered; overnight the American became a cynosure at the French court. When Aaron Burr came penniless to France after his trial...