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PARIS, Nov. 4–The world of art today mourned Henri Matisse, one of France’s greatest painters, who died in his apartment in Nice yesterday afternoon of a heart attack. He was 84 years old.

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The great poets’ lives are infinitely colourful, so why are films about them so dull’ Jane Campion’s film about Keats is poetic justice Jane Campion’s sublime Bright Star , about the love life of John Keats, is the exception that proves the rule, and the rule is this: movies about poets are boring! Even movies about poets who themselves were not in any way boring tend to be boring – deeply …

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