Word: clare
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Physical and emotional pain became Kahlo's principal subject. She painted herself skewered, split, trussed and as a deer bristling with arrows. She was no sentimentalist. In 1938 Clare Boothe Luce, then managing editor of Vanity Fair, asked Kahlo to paint a memorial portrait of a friend who had jumped from a New York hotel window. The artist complied with a depiction of the woman simultaneously leaping, falling and finally lying dead on the pavement...
...tournament's big match yesterday, Trinity's Clare Slatter upset top seed Connie Yowell of Yale, 6-1, 6-4. Now Evans, seeded second, is the tournament favorite...
...improved everything-the paper, the fashion drawings, the photography, the writing-and within a decade Vogue became the nation's most influential, and most lucrative, arbiter of fashion. In 1913 Nast launched Vanity Fair, a witty, literary monthly. He hired a succession of bright young women editors (Clare Boothe Luce, Helen Lawrenson, Millicent Fenwick, Marya Marines) and gave them carte blanche...
...into total confusion by accepting his first offer of a date, then does him the favor of standing him up. Three of her pals take him over, passing him along from one to the next over the course of an evening. He ends up on a hillside with Susan (Clare Grogan), who likes him best and who, in the girls' collective, unspoken wisdom, is just the right speed for him. It is an opinion he comes to agree with gratefully...
...hand you have Hitler, on the other Albert Schweitzer. Are people in books like this? People in books ought to be human beings. Let us consider human beings in books Consider the men in Tess of the D'Uhervilles, written by a man Alex D'Urbervile, a rake. Angel Clare, a total wimp Dogs Hardy hate men? Consider Dickens, a man, writing about men. Now those are men I would love to have in my living room Consider...