Word: agee
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...moon. In earlier manifestations, the Top Model was Lisa Fonssagrives, Suzy Parker, Jean Shrimpton, Lauren Hutton. Now, lambent in the pages of Harper's Bazaar and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, ineffable on a talk show, utterly right at the right disco, a splendid beacon in the mind of every wistful teen-age buyer of eye enlarger and cheekbone sharpener, a poster pinned across Farrah's, a secret smile on the face of a dozing commuter, her name is Cheryl Tiegs...
...raised her rates for commercial modeling from $1,500 a day to $2,000, though she receives the standard $150 a day for high-fashion work). Model Cristina Ferrare, 28, on hand for the shoot (as photo sessions are called), thinks that there is much less panic about age these days in the fashion business. "Part of the change is feminism, probably," she says, "and part is that everyone is exercising, keeping themselves together. But a lot of it is just Cheryl. She has that incredible face, and her body is the best in the business...
...age that will stop Cheryl Tiegs' modeling career; it is aeronautics. She is about to float free. Her face and her body have been recognizable for years, and now her name is known to the kids who rush to get autographs and the distraught high school boys who write earnest letters ("You are by far the most beautiful looking and shaped woman ...") begging for an old sock, a hairbrush, a nude picture. Soon it will be known to the steady and the reasonable, the people who keep their credit cards paid up and have their children's teeth straightened...
...aspects of that problem, which is concentrated among the often unskilled young, blacks and Hispanics, and housewives seeking to supplement their families' incomes. In his budget proposal, President Carter asked for $400 million in grants to firms that hire and train unskilled people, mainly in the 18-to-24 age bracket. Even conservative business leaders have told the President that the sum is too small to make much impact...
...Kooning's seriousness as an artist and his historical achievement are of very considerable magnitude, and will always invite judgment by the highest standards of modernism. But the work of his old age is not remotely of the same order as the late works of other old men of the modernist mountain-Matisse at 80 with his colored cutouts, the last paintings of Cézanne, Monet's lily ponds. That sense of exaltation, of a long life resolved and its aesthetic structures made luminously explicit, is missing. Instead, we get a lot of dash and gusto...