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...desserts more, today's model is as much as and no more than her well-disciplined face and body; she is another accessory to the dress she displays, as silent and secondary as the shoes and gloves. If the dress does not fit, the model is made to conform (hairspray cans are tucked in the backs of loose waistlines to take up the slack; tissue paper is stuffed into brassieres to fill out bust lines...
Heiliger began his studies at the Berlin Academy in a bad year for German art: 1933, the year Hitler not only took over Germany but began to dictate to its artists. Heiliger was young, naive, and possessed of "the necessary skill to conform with the exaggerated realism the Nazis wanted." Fortunately, the Nazis still allowed a few top students to study abroad, and Heiliger was lucky enough to spend 18 months in Paris. There he met Sculptors Charles Despiau and Aristide Maillol, was elated by their preoccupation with the human figure. To Heiliger, nature, particularly the human figure...
...Says Edwin L. Parker, president of A. G. Spalding Bros., the major leagues' sole baseball purveyors since 1876: "Today's ball and the one that Ruth hit are identical. Period." Nor has the manufacturing process in Spalding's Chicopee, Mass, factory appreciably changed. Each ball must conform to rigid specifications, set decades ago by the leagues. Its horsehide cover conceals a cork core wrapped in two layers of rubber and 490 machine-wound yards of five kinds of yarn. Even the cover must meet a fine thickness tolerance of .045 to .055 of an inch. The finished...
Trumbull to Rothko. As the committee worked on the collection, SOM was providing a setting that even the Medicis might have envied. The golden carpeting for the 17th floor executive offices came from Hong Kong. SOM designed tables to conform to the disciplined lines of the building; the chairs ranged from Mies van der Rohe's elegant Barcelona model to the stubby leather swivel chairs designed by Ward Bennett-who also advised on color and office appointments. Many of the textiles used are handwoven, come from as far away as Thailand...
...Spaniard's greatest contribution to modern society has been his dogged refusal to conform to it-especially to its drab, workaday timetable. No self-respecting Madrileno would think of lunching before 2 p.m., or returning to the office before 4. Matinees in Madrid begin at 7 p.m.. evening performances at 11. The cocktail hour starts at 8:30, and until he sits down to his supper at some undeterminable time after 10 p.m., the Spaniard believes it is still afternoon...