Word: garments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kantor has had time for half a dozen such phases; he was born half a century ago, in Minsk, Russia. Young Kantor imagined the U.S. as a land of opportunity for his art, but when the hopeful 13-year-old stepped off the boat, Manhattan's teeming garment district swiftly swallowed him up. It took him seven years to get as far as art school. Since then he has gone all the way from pure abstractionism to meticulous realism (and most of the way back again). His theory: "Each painting should stand by itself, not only as to subject...
...thin, chrome-plated legs. They were designed by California's solemn, earnest Charles Eames, 39, onetime pupil of famed Finnish modernist Eliel Saarinen. Eames, who designed molded plywood splints for the Navy during the war, is a man who believes that utility is beauty's only garment. He finds the kitchen and bathroom the most beautiful rooms in most U.S. homes. By the same token, Designer Eames explains, "when a chair is comfortable it becomes beautiful...
...kneels at her feet, doing something to the edge of her skirt. If one looks closely one finds that actually he is about to take a measurement with a yardstick. But to a casual glance he looks as though he were kissing the hem of the woman's garment-not a bad symbolical picture of American civilization, or at least of one important side...
About 70,000 warehousemen were made idle at once. Many industries, including the immense garment and printing trades, air-braked to a creep by lack of supplies and glutted by unmovable finished products, served notice of shutdowns if the tieup continued. Mayor William O'Dwyer stepped in with a settlement proposal- the magic 18½-an-hour raise. But the drivers, against the urgings of their union leaders, tossed it back to him as unacceptable...
...Hedy Lamarr suffered the unkindest cluck of all, from a corner of the foundation-garment industry. A sharp-eyed stylist rose to report: her waist is too thick. Also, said this foundation-garment expert: Ingrid Bergman tends toward hippiness, and Katharine Hepburn hasn't enough of what Carole Landis has too much...