Word: cool
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make life a little pleasanter and easier for their breadwinners; only here is the Ideal Male one who dedicates his life to the pampering of women. In India, for example, as recently as 1953, a woman was observed in the act of fixing a quiet room and a cool drink for a husband on his way home from work. In Dallas and Des Moines, as we all know, the ladies make a different kind of preparation...
This week the Modern announced that six canvases in the show will permanently-grace, its cool halls. Cézanne's Boy in a Red Waistcoat (donated by David Rockefeller) helps the Modern correct what it considers the "weakness" of its late 19th century collection. Cézanne's canvases are currently thought to be a sort of touchstone of modern art-he is the idolized grandfather whose very presence lends authority to the struggles of his successors-and the Boy is an excellent example "of his pioneering portraiture...
BIGGEST AIR CONDITIONERS ever made will be installed (for $529,925) on Capitol Hill to cool the Capitol, Senate and House office buildings, Supreme Court building and Library of Congress...
...freaks, dwarfs and buffoons whom Goya loved to draw. They made a dramatic setting for her fragile, doll-like beauty. Goya drew and painted her often, sometimes with admiration and sometimes in anger at her wild flirting. Once he showed her carried away by witches and looking as cool as ever. When she died, he turned from palace to street life, found it every bit as weird. He was the first social commentator in art to recognize and dispense with the unconscious snobbism of picturesque effects...
...bought about eight houses in one day. I don't know why I did it; I didn't like most of them." But she liked the comparatively small, 27-room house in Beverly Hills that she now lives in. Says she: "It's quiet and cool, and 'W.R.' liked this house. It reminded him in a small way of San Simeon...