Word: conchita
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...positioning his camera before them and waiting for them to assume the configurations he was looking for. What he wanted were archetypal scenes of Paris life in which the people were not caught in motion but in essence. Even in a picture of romantic treachery as subtly animated as Conchita with Sailors--there's a world of sexy waywardness in those spitcurl bangs alone--the people are as weighty and immemorial as Egyptian temple statues. And even when he made a picture in full daylit motion, like Kiss on Swing at a Street Fair, he's still Brassai the night...
SENTENCED. CONCHITA LINK, 61, former wife of 81-year-old photographer O. Winston Link, celebrated for his black-and-white nighttime images of steam locomotives; to 6 1/3 to 20 years in prison; in White Plains, New York. Mrs. Link was found guilty in July of stealing more than $1 million worth of his photographic prints...
...second-seeded Arantxa Sanchez Vicario, 22, was sent to the sidelines in the fourth. Navratilova could be forgiven last Saturday if she was overcome with the urge to pinch herself. For there she was on Centre Court again, playing for an unprecedented 10th ladies' singles title against third- seeded Conchita Martinez, 22, a baseline basher from Barcelona, Spain...
...like Prince (with a temporarily funked-up backbeat to match). "Why Am I So Tired All the Time?" and "Evanston, IL" are quiet, slowly oscillating incarnations of post-teenage despair, as if a male lounge-jazz singer were suddenly infused with the authentic spirit of the late Joy Division. "Conchita," which I think is a plain old love song (though it's real hard to tell), does all the work of a classic Tin Pan Alley composition on only two chords at a time, shifting back and forth between 'em in a way that Versus, if you've heard...