Word: know
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Life." Marchand hates the term nature morte, never uses it. "Nature," he says, "is never dead." His paintings of bulls silhouetted against hot-colored sand were even livelier than the still lifes. Says Marchand, who returned from Arles with a headful of fact & fancy about fighting bulls: "Do you know they always die at night, standing up, their eyes turned toward the moon...
...disguises are countless . . . This eccentricity makes the problem of learning the names of a new class a formidable one for a man. He sees the girls on Monday morning looking like the wrath of God with hair uncombed and overalls pulled on over their pajamas, and gets to know them thus. He sees them again on Friday afternoon looking more glamorous than Conover models and doesn't recognize them...
Songwriter Hoagy (Stardust) Carmichael was not sure he was quite up to the job. "I know my limitations . . . I'm not a student of music." But on the other hand, he did have an idea, and he was a native Indianian, and that was more than most of the other invited composers could say as they began to compose short symphonic pieces for the centennial of Hoosier Poet James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916). "I got on the telephone with [Indianapolis Symphony Conductor] Fabien Sevitzky and told him what I had in mind," said Hoagy. "He encouraged...
...comedies like June Moon and Boy Meets Girl. But Turgenev's Smoke, which was expected to leave people cold, was one of the most popular we've ever done." And he adds: "There are some shows I've put on that I personally hate, but I know there's an audience for them. TV's a mass medium and there has to be something for everybody. You have to make compromises...
...pressed leathernecks could hold the first beachhead in the Pacific war, Navy Secretary Knox said: "I don't want to make any predictions, but every man out there, ashore or afloat, will give a good account of himself." When this word came to Guadalcanal one sergeant mused: "Ya know, they're kicking up a stink about us back in the States." Said a private first class: "That's nice...