Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Diene Arbus begins with the photographer's Fairy tale birth in March of 1923 into a world of wealth and fashion. Arbus's father, David Nemerov, headed. New York's extravagant Russeks department store, reputed to be the place where millionaires bought gifts to lavish on their "kept" women. Her mother, the lovely Gertrude Russeks, was the daughter of the store's founder. Forever ill at ease with the over-indulgent life style her parents provided, the young Diane would force herself to "stand on the window ledge of her parents' apartment in the San Remo, 11 stories above Central...
...there were occasional retreats on her progression to confronting the life of the circus side-show. For several years, Arbus inhabited the world of fashion photography, working in the shadow of her husband. Still, everywhere she went, she made an impression. Well-known artcritc Alex Eliot, grandson of President Eliot of Harvard, was infatuate by her: "no matter how well we thought we knew her, she was elusive--an enchantress." One of her closest friends remembers her as a "young woman with the most extraordinary presence about her--she seemed haunted. She had wild, startling eyes, and she was carrying...
BOSWORTH SEES HER break with the fashion world as the turning point in Arbus' career, the moment she went form being a photographer to being an artist. Forbidden as a young girl from even looking at freaks, she now stared. She began to prowl the streets of New York-late at night, when the train stations were "deep, empty, odoriferous-'like pits of hell''' and when the freaks-came out. Soon she became a regular at Hubert's Freak Museum. Staring at the hideous figures, she felt fear run its course through her body and she was determined to conquer...
Ezeji-Okoye pulled a thigh muscle during the second leg of the mile relay in Saturday's tri-meet against Dartmouth and Brown, ending his career on the Harvard track in disappointing fashion His loss didn't matter on Saturday, though, as the Crimson men took the meet handily with 50 points, the Big Green could muster only 50, and Brown finished last with...
...world, narcissists constantly fine-tuning their images, are always susceptible so any intellectual defense for self-display. The irony of the androgynous ideal is that a contradicts that basic purpose of careful dressing: attracting the admirable sexual partners. The 1980's androgyny fad is merely a brief fashion span of the anxious and the outrageous, one that will go the way of leather miniskirts and spiked hair does...