Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...finishes each page, rolls it into a little ball and puts it in his coat pocket (he reads that somewhere). And then he dreams, strange dream of motorcycles and frisbee discs, the mystery of Bermuda shorts and one summer of happiness. Harold is, as well as an artist, a dreamer...
...filmed programs, which are sold to Ann Arbor's Educational Television & Radio Center for nationwide distribution to ETV stations. Most impressive KQED films: Sing Hi, Sing Lo, a history of the U.S. told through folklore and folk song; a series on Japanese brush painting taught by Artist Takahike Mikami: Fallout and Disarmament, an hour-long debate between Scientists Linus Pauling and Edward Teller. KQED's final deficit ($90,000) is made up by a membership drive selling subscriptions from $10 and up that entitle the subscriber to nothing but a sense of community service...
...women in the nation's early days used powdered chalk and fresh-cut beet juice for beauty, but the onset of the Victorian age made "paint and powder" the hallmark of the dance-hall girl or the woman of the street. The Gibson girl, created by Artist Charles Dana Gibson, was the modest and aloof dream girl of U.S. males in the early years of the century. It was not until World War I that makeup crawled back to respectability, and not until the Roaring Twenties that it dared to flaunt its painted face-under a permanent wave, invented...
...they grant that many a sensible decision has been made under the present law. Case in point: when a batch of twelve "abstractions" by a London Zoo chimpanzee arrived in Baltimore, they were about to be passed as duty-free original works of art when customs inspectors identified the "artist." They assessed full duty, reasoning that when a chimp apes...
...Bellini's Il Pirata, she stalked out of Milan's La Scala-for good, she said-and probably out of Italian opera as well. "I leave La Scala with deep pain," she said. "It is no longer compatible with my dignity as a woman and an artist...