Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...floor, cinder blocks, polystyrene or slabs of rusty steel propped together. The paint Close applied was molecule-thin, spritzed on the painstakingly prepared gesso surface with an airbrush, in strict accordance with the grid to which Close enlarged the original photo. It suggested an obsessive involvement on the artist's part, but kept the viewer distant, with nothing sensuous to hook onto--unless you had a thing about freckles and wens. This idea of deadpan, photo-derived "objectivity" was much in the air at the time--a small movement, Photo-Realism, was one of the spin-offs from...
SUSAN CARPENTER-McMILLAN The Madame Defarge of the CNN era finds a career: not spokeswoman but makeover artist...
TIES TO MATCH To raise funds for the V Foundation for Cancer Research, the Stonehenge menswear company turned some sketches, bottom, from sports celebrities (Jerry Rice, Dick Vitale, Lesley Visser, Joe Theismann and others) into tie patterns, top. Can you match the artist to the sketch to the pattern...
...Paula Jones cover. But that was four makeovers ago and before Washington hairdressers, previously known for keeping the chignon alive, had p.r. agents. Linda Tripp refused to sit for a photo by the New York Times because the newspaper would not pay for her hair and makeup artist...
...third of the nation, ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished." He was loved because he radiated personal charm, joy in his work, optimism for the future. Even Charles de Gaulle, who well knew Roosevelt's disdain for him, succumbed to the "glittering personality," as he put it, of "that artist, that seducer." "Meeting him," said Winston Churchill, "was like uncorking a bottle of champagne...