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...formidable of their little, black-browed Premier in the U.S. In six days, Pierre Mendes-France had dispelled most of U.S. officialdom's lingering suspicions that he was a neutralist at heart and all too willing to flirt with Russia. U.S. negotiators learned to respect his tough-minded realism, and ordinary bystanders compulsively burst into applause as he passed. "The American people took M. Mendes-France to their hearts,'' said U.S. Ambassador to France Douglas Dillon, "and I can fairly state that . . . Franco-American relations have never been better." Said the Gaullist Aurore, trying its hand...
Bohrod's most prized ($4,500) fool-the-eye painting in the Madison exhibit is Still Life with Portraits, a weathered door hung with a worn horseshoe, a bugle, an ancient pistol and pictures of Lincoln, Sarah Bernhardt and Henry Clay. Another achieves part of its realism because it was done in collaboration with his seven-year-old son, Neil. Against the usual wooden background, it shows a leaky water pistol, Halloween masks, a torn piece of a newspaper photo and a child's slate. On the slate is a drawing of a witch-by Neil...
...Armament awakens unpleasant memories," Conant continued. "We must approach Germany with a healthy portion of realism." Despite dangers, there is "a very real effort in Germany to break with the evil and dangerous in its military tradition," he said...
...machine age, few artists have found inspiration in the machine. Some, seeing it only as cold and impersonal steel, portrayed it with stark realism; others, fearing it, blew it to pieces in abstracts and cubes. Russian-born Boris Artzybasheff brought the machine to life, endowed it with personality, sex-and even ulcers...
...scale symphony LPs, has other record executives keeping a slightly envious eye on him. Cook's market remains mostly "audiophiles," who shiver in ecstasy over a tingling triangle while hardly noticing whether the music is a symphony or a psalm. But the number of listeners who look for realism in recorded sound is multiplying every day. Last year, hi-fi fans bought 100,000 Cook...