Word: bustedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...steadily resisted Western influences and made his reputation as a purely Nippon-Ga (Japanese-style) artist. As a portrayer of beautiful women, Shinsui is inevitably compared with Utamaro, the classic pin-up master. Although Shinsui admits that Japanese standards of feminine charm have changed ("it seems that the bust and figure predominate nowadays"), he has never wavered in his devotion to pure Oriental prettiness...
Monument Builder. Trujillo has put up hospitals and schools, but above all he has put up monuments to himself. Every hamlet has a statue, or at least a bust, of El Benefactor, every public building an inscription proclaiming his beneficence. "Only Trujillo cures you," says the inscription on a hospital. Hundreds of towns, streets, buildings have been renamed after Trujillo, his father, his mother, and his patron saint, Rafael. In an unequalled burst of impudence, he renamed the oldest city in the New World (founded by Bartholomeo Columbus, brother of Christopher, in 1496): Ciudad Santo Domingo became Ciudad Trujillo...
...foreign-aid program, and used the occasion to study Ike Eisenhower. True, whenever they had tried to get politically confidential, Eisenhower had hurriedly called in two of his aides. One returning Republican said: "It was like getting ready to propose to your girl, then having her kid brothers bust in on you." But each Republican got the same definite impression: although Ike was not saying, he would be available, in case anyone was still seriously in doubt. And his freely expressed fears about the growth of U.S. bureaucracy convinced them that "he sounds more & more like a Republican...
...recently made official by a doctor, but her age ("Put down 22 or 24 or whatever you think is charming") and her weight ("That's one thing I wouldn't care to know") are more elusive. Some statistics, however, she does remember. "My bust is 40 inches," she says, breathing deeply...
Giacometti's ideal would be to spend a lifetime on a single statue, paring ever closer to its essence, but impatience often makes him reduce bust to dust in a matter of minutes. "Despite all my efforts," he complains,"! retain conventional elements I want...