Word: beatonized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...streetwalkers were out in three times their usual force, and a cordon of policemen surrounded the boarded-over statue of Eros to ward off the drunks who always want to climb it on such occasions. At the Savoy, a gilded party of 2,000 (including Noel Coward, Cecil Beaton, Merle Oberon and Sharman Douglas) joined Press Lord Viscount Camrose of the Daily Telegraph to sip champagne and watch a private bulletin board...
...team has improved 100 percent." Munro said after the game. Playing on a dry field in perfect weather against a squad that would have beaton them hanoly last week, the Crimson kept the ball in the Ephmen's half of the field most of the time. The passing was crisp and accurate, and the heading was frequent. For the first time this season. Harvard was beating its opponent to the ball...
Cambridge was more tolerant of Beaton's talents, but Beaton's father, a timber merchant, was not. After Cambridge, Cecil was put to work for a Mr. Schmiegelow, typing invoices for bags of cement. A young worldling of his acquaintance took pity. "Take it easy," he advised, "and become a friend of the Sitwells...
...Beaton did. Soon he had his first show (full of such surrealisms as the famous photograph of Edith Sitwell-as a corpse on a strip of linoleum), and became notorious overnight as the wild man of British photography. In a few years puckish Cecil had captivated a good share of the rich society-photography trade in New York as well as in London, and had published a book of his photographs. One of Cecil's subjects, Lady Cunard, was so displeased with the book that she set her copy afire in the midst of a luncheon party, then seized...
Monkey Tricks. The lady was wrong. Even in his earliest plates, Cecil Beaton showed himself to be a remarkably gifted photographer of women. His talent for the picturesque lie, his mastery of the cosmetic power of light, his ability to observe beautiful women with a severe detachment-almost as fine pieces of furniture-produced photographs that were sometimes as exquisitely unreal as the visions of Botticelli...