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The cause of Maître-Créche's legal troubles was a poster depicting Rabelais' famous comic figure Gargantua staring forlornly at an empty hot-dog roll and sighing, “Que j'eusse bien aimé jumbo frankfurther aujourd'hui!”
The title of his sendup of abstract expressionism, Painting with Two Balls (1960)--and there they are, squeezed forlornly between two big panels of drips and brushstrokes--is about as explicit as Johns ever gets.
Stanley spent his wedding night forlornly with Hilda and many years afterward longing for a reconciliation.
Hunched forward in a coarse painter's smock, he peers forlornly at us, his tired and damaged eyes rimmed with vermilion.