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...wedding approached, Diana, with Charles beside her, spoke on TV. Describing a gift collage from her kindergarten students, she said, "Oh, well, it's the firework display that's going to happen on Tuesday, the one that I'm not going to... I'm going to be tucked up in bed, I think, early night...
...creating the speckled, radically colored world of Fauvism at Collioure in the south of France; in the great "decorative" paintings of 1908-12 like Conversation; in the astoundingly bare and mysterious French Window at Collioure, 1914; and so on to the palm tree that, like a firework in the garden, fills the window of Interior with an Egyptian Curtain, 1948, its explosive light seeming to cast an inky black shadow under the bowl of fruit. The room is culture; the window frames nature; it is a kind of picture-within-a-picture, another trope that Matisse was partial...
...shame that everyone was more concerned with getting photos of every ship and firework than really watching and enjoying them. The fireworks, shot off 40 barges, were incredible--but everyone around me was glued to their viewfinders...
About 50 veterans, several in wheelchairs, rushed the wall. One rested his head against it, sobbing uncontrollably. Another leaned against the wall and stared bland for several minutes as firework exploded over the East Rivers celebrate the war memorial...
...with him," says Ralph Richardson, a close friend for 53 years. "Sometimes I will say yes or no or really? Afterward he will tell someone, 'I had a wonderful talk with Ralph.' And I didn't say anything! He's a continual firework of words...