Word: paste
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Picasso, who declined to send anything to the show, might have conveyed more with a quiet little sketch of either the chicken or the rat. Yet Paris gallerygoers, bored stiff with disciples of past masters, were welcoming Lorjou's rebellion last week by beating a path to his big, brash canvas...
Comedienne Elsa Lanchester was between movies. Moreover, she was on three months' vacation from Los Angeles' popular Turnabout Theater, where she has reigned as revue queen for the past nine years (TIME, May 24, 1948). Husband Charles Laughton was off on a three-month tour reciting Shakespeare and the Bible. What should Elsa do with the time on her hands? A Hollywood promoter solved the problem for her. Last week, red-haired Elsa was making her first try as a chanteuse in the top-tab Persian Room of Manhattan's Plaza Hotel...
...once accounted for 50% of the gross, have tumbled. The reason: no one wants to drink at the bar and be branded a nobody. That is particularly true when choice empty tables are marked "reserved." Says Mike: "It's very bad for the morale for one to walk past those empty booths and be shunted to a rear table. Customers are affronted...
...from billboards and the sides of the city's big red buses, was unrefined, not to say coarse; his voice was shrill and slightly cockney. While indubitably a born writer, he was not in the least an esthete -indeed, he compared Esthete Proust's Remembrance of Things Past to "a 20-year-old store catalogue." Though a staunch socialist and avid student of political economy, he considered Karl Marx "the worst type of bore," and he summed up the Soviet image of the revolutionary worker as a "pithacoid Proletarian, dishevelled and semi-nude...
Goalie captain George Anderson injured a finger in pre-game practice and was replaced by Pete Briggs. After six minutes of the third period, Andover's forward Rick Fajardo kicked the slippery ball past Briggs in a muddy entanglement in front of the goal...