Word: coating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Madame la Maráchale, 67, was dignified in a straw sailor and a high-necked light tailleur. Short, chunky Madame Laval, 57, wore sari-like slacks and a beige coat. Her hair was swathed in a capacious scarf...
With bell-bottom trousers and a coat of navy blue...
...most gaped-at murals in the U.S. glistened last week with a fresh, 750-gallon coat of paint. The concourse ceiling of Manhattan's Grand Central Station, a 40,000-sq.-ft. turquoise and gold-leaf image of the heavens (a romping Pegasus, twinkling Mazda stars, eight signs of the Zodiac) gleamed as bright as new. The big arched picture-ceiling, put up in 1913, had never before been repainted. It was a ticklish job. The busy, perpetually thronged space beneath it could not be shut off-and a mere half pint of paint dropped no feet might permanently...
...adventure (The Splendid Spur, I Saw Three Ships) made him one of Britain's most popular storytellers at the turn of the century. To Cambridge students, from 1912 until his death last year, he was the sharp-faced, crusty Professor of English who invariably lectured in immaculate frock coat and striped trousers...
...book is a collection of 210 acidulous, weavy, relaxed drawings, some of which look as though they had been made by dropping black thread on a white washed floor. Freest bird in the cartooning aviary, Saul Steinberg once experimented with the value of line by bending wire coat hangers into pictorial forms: "Out of line you make whatever you wish." Among Steinberg's more rewarding finds...