Word: bustedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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RAYMOND, who died in 1918, was one of the first and ablest cubist sculptors. His powerful, beetle-browed bust of Poet Charles Baudelaire showed that he also had an impressive gift for conventional portraiture...
Howard Hughes' latest effort, The Las Vegas Story, has the same old Hughesian ingredients: Jane Russell's bust, Vincent Price's portrayal of a rich degenerate, a luxurious locale. (The Fabulous Hotel in Las Vegas), and a spectacular chase sequence near the finish. Only this time Victor Mature (not Robert Mitchum) plays the hero, and Hoagy Carmichael has been thrown in for kicks too, along with an incredible diamond necklace rented from Cartier, Inc. The result, as usual, is a preposterously silly picture...
...religious works in a church. The work: an ungainly but powerful white stone figure of Lazarus. The church: the 14th century Gothic chapel at New College, Oxford. The deal was closed when New College Warden Alic Halford Smith, in Epstein's studio to sit for a portrait bust, admired the Lazarus, decided to buy it on the spot. No financial details were disclosed, except that a "substantial" check was sent to the artist. Back at Oxford, New College officials were so pleased that they planned to give the statue a place of honor among the trophies of 14th century...
...Girls. Chicago's Gillette Elvgren, a whiz in this field, did Fresh Breeze. He says that all his girls are "the Minnesota type, naive and fresh"-eyes set wide apart, nose pert and short, lips full-small waist, long legs, full bust-age, preferably under 21 -and "they've got to be alive." Elvgren's stereotyped girls may not come alive on canvas, but they do in people's minds...
...disqualified as an amateur because he had played professional baseball) and threatened to sue the A.A.U. It was bad enough, he said, for the Olympic Committee to take back the medals he had won, "but I do hold that the officials had no right to take back the bronze bust of himself that King Gustav V of Sweden gave me or the jewel-studded silver Viking ship the Czar of Russia asked me to accept. They belong to me and must be returned or I will bring a suit for damages...