Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Argentines had noted that the army, fed up with mounting inflation and the politicking of Perón's wife Eva, had ceased to be the prop it once was. When the third anniversary of Perón's popular election fell last week, it became equally clear that Perón's labor prop was also slipping...
...made them was a prosperous and beloved illustrator of French children's books (Filles et Garçons; Nos Enfants'), but by no means a famous artist in his own time. Only gradually has it become clear that Boutet de Monvel has cinched his own special place among the immortals of art, by modestly slipping through the gate that many more gifted painters try, and fail, to force...
Comic Arthur Godfrey has probably caused the biggest uproar among would-be censors by exhibiting a miniature outhouse and describing it as his "office." But such clear-cut cases of bad taste are not the only problem. Raymond Nelson, director of Du Mont's Fashions on Parade, points to color as one difficulty: on the TV screen, dresses of certain shades of red make a girl look undressed. TV avoids negligees, slips, nightgowns and foundation garments-even on dummies. "No matter how you look at it," says Nelson, "a wax dummy on television is a nude woman...
Fiction? South Africa's unsmiling old (67) Finance Minister Nicolaas Christiaan Havenga went right ahead anyway. He ridiculed the Fund's objections. Said he: "It is becoming increasingly clear . . . that . . . the fiction that gold is worth only $35 an ounce cannot endure much longer. This is an international problem and will soon be the touchstone of the success or failure of the Fund...
...agency: "Every day an oily coating slowly forms upon the skin." Cried Marquand, as he remembers it: "My God, do you realize that line scans?-'Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime!' By that time," says Marquand, "it was clear that I wasn't taking copywriting quite seriously enough." He decided to go back to Newburyport, try to write fiction...