Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like ancient Athens, "the Athens of America" has its back streets. Artist Jack Levine was born on one, in Boston's grimy South End, and he has never achieved the coolness and balance of a Phidias or a Copley. He puts his passion into pictures in which rich people look like withered apples seen through a mist of rage...
Nephew Leo's financial theories were simpler: create U.S. gold dollars (out of circulation since 1933), British sovereigns and French napoleons and sell them to greedy, panicky black-market speculators. He explained: "The real brain of our association was a Greek, Georges Chou-naris [later arrested] . . . a true artist, a sort of alchemist of the Middle Ages. He combined antimony and lead, then moulded the metal and gold-plated it. Production costs were negligible. In eight months we grossed 100 million francs...
According to Artist Vargas, he thought the deal was $18,000 annually for 26 Varga girls a year. The contract actually called for one Varga girl a week for ten years, at $12,000 a year. That was a "physical impossibility," said Vargas-the girls must first be born in the mind, "then they have to come from my heart and out through my hand...
...Girl of the Golden West she rode a bronco on stage, and as Thai's she once celebrated her conversion to Christianity with a record high-jump that landed her in the hospital. All this musical whoopla endeared Jeritza to her public, if not to her fellow artists. Snorted Soprano Lilli Lehmann: "If you're a real artist you don't have to lie down on your face to sing a big aria...
...plays identical twins. As the Good Twin she falls in love with a pipe-puffing engineer (Glenn Ford). As the Bad Twin she steals him, pipe & all, marries him, manages to be spectacularly unfaithful. But the Good Twin stays staunch and true despite the Neanderthal attentions of an alarming artist (Dane Clark...