Word: portfolios
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when rotund Camille Pissarro walked into Paris' Cafe de la Nouvelle Athenes with his great prophet's beard streaming and his portfolio tucked under his arms, fellow artists would greet him with a shout, "Hail to Moses!" In fact, good-natured, soft-spoken Painter Pissarro's place in art was far more that of teacher, peacemaker and counselor than lawgiver. He was ten years older than most of the impressionist greats, and this induced in him a fatherly urge to take time off from his own painting to patch up quarrels, round up shows, hold together...
...kind of conspirator-without-portfolio, Dirk finds himself in a jungle of spies and counterspies-a hashish-smoking English spiv who feeds both true and false information to the British embassy for the price of his food and rent, a degraded homosexual German who is in the double employ of the palace clique and the free officers' group. Everywhere, too, are agents of the Wafd, the venal party of the land-owning beys and pashas...
...young King was painfully learning, the mob is a member without portfolio in any Jordanian government today...
...another 200,000 men to reinforce the 230,000 troops already in Algeria, and for a huge investment program in Algeria totaling $570 million. Not until order was restored, he argued, should France negotiate with the rebels. The most influential man in Mollet's Cabinet, Minister-Without-Portfolio Pierre Mendès-France, backed Lacoste's military plans, but demanded that the government open negotiations with the rebels at once...
...Atget, an unsuccessful actor, turned to photography and began the project on which his fame rests--the photographic documentation of Paris. His portfolio included studies of buildings, fountains, churches and home interiors, as well as pictures of art objects. From the outer shell of the city he worked into its living core, moving among the people to catch an unforgettable panorama of faces and figures...