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...reflected in a pool of troubled water, A few feet away, Delaunay uses powerful swirls of clashing colors to prove that "color alone is both form and subject." Rousseau was never more endearing than in his Artillerymen, who are all stiffly lined up as in a regimental photograph. And Marc Chagall was never more touching and imaginative than in his fantasy called Birthday. The painting shows a husband floating in, mid-air as he lands a kiss on his wife's lips. Chagall said it was inspired by the phrase "head over heels in love...
Eleven years ago, wispy, gentle Marc Chagall received a tribute until then reserved for only Picasso, Braque and Matisse: a room of his own in Paris' National Museum of Modern Art. Now, at 72, the Russian-born laborer's son who first dreamed of being a cantor, then a poet and finally a painter has fused all three visions in what may well rank as his supreme achievement: twelve 11-ft. by 8-ft. stained-glass windows that symbolize in luminous colors and phantasmagorical shapes the twelve tribes of Israel...
...oblique," "the zig-zag," and "the spiral," work at creating what the designers call "body-conscious shape." Oblique seams, side fastenings and spiral back wrappings encircle the body; simple little dresses are diagonally, often dizzily, detailed by wildly flying panels, bias cuts, tricky scarf necklines. Even Dior's Marc Bohan, who tends to flout the trends, does away with the bulky silhouette; although he concentrates less on S-lines than his colleagues, Bohan's fashions are the tightest, slenderest, most feminine of all. His decidedly youthful designs feature slim, high-bosomed bodices, gently flared skirts, wide cinch-belts...
...Aimer (The Great Fear of Loving), with a prefatory send-off from famed Authoress Simone (The Second Sex) de Beauvoir. Its simply told case histories of women who needed to prevent unwanted pregnancies aroused the conscience of her fellow doctors. France's leading Protestant theologian, Pastor Marc Boegner, backed her; so did Authors Georges Duhamel and Gabriel Marcel. In their wake came scores of newspaper and magazine articles, radio and TV" programs. France at last awoke to Dr. Weill-Halle's crusade...
Since its beginning in 1954, the group has toured the United States, Canada, Europe, New Zealand, and Australia. The members are Marc Gottlieb, violin; Vladmir Weissman, violin; William Soheon, viola; and Irving Klein, cello...