Word: manikin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cynosure of all eyes was an improvised sculptural group at the entrance, consisting of a broken-down closed car in which a skeleton sat, warm and dry, at the driver's wheel while in the back seat a semi-nude manikin was planted among flourishing weeds, a heavy shower pouring down on her golden hair. Once past this cryptic collection, visitors entered a long corridor lined with completely nude manikins, masked with bird cages, sprouting electric light bulbs, spotted here and there with snails, pins, bats and magnets. Then each visitor was handed a free flashlight and ushered into...
...calculated but capricious symbolism. At least one exhibit was animated (see cut). One of the objects displayed was a suitcase containing a neatly packed skull and gas mask stuffed with newspapers headlined The Menace of Fascism. Another was an enameled phonograph with an old-fashioned horn from which a manikin's legs protruded at one end, at the other a plaster hand stretched over a revolving disc shaped to suggest the curve of flesh. In the dim light there was an optical illusion of the hand approaching but never quite reaching the flesh-curve of the disc. Title: Jamais...
Since these characters achieved prominence in a piquant period, it was to be expected that something in the way of written reminiscences would sooner or later appear. But Bohemians are notoriously lackadaisical about such matters, and though Kiki's Memoirs (Black Manikin Press; Paris, 1930) and Hamnett's Laughing Torso (Long & Smith, 1932) have been published, it was to small audiences; the panning of Montparnasse gold has been largely left to the more journalistically-minded. Third in the authentic train, Jimmy Charters' narrative would be condemned forthwith as a rehashing of minor and well-chewed-over material...
...sofabed which he described in letters home as a "really genteel article of furniture." Year later he was eager to accept a call back to Williams to teach moral philosophy and rhetoric. With anatomy and physiology classes as well, he decided that he must have a manikin for classroom demonstrations. He bought the manikin himself for $600, worked off the debt by packing it behind him in his sleigh, circulating over the Massachusetts countryside- to deliver public lectures on human anatomy...
Died. Lady Duff-Gordon (Lucy Sutherland) 71. famed dress designer, long-time president of Lucile Ltd. (now defunct), Titanic survivor, sister of Novelist Elinor Glyn; after six months' illness; in London. She was credited with the first split skirt, first manikin show, first application of the word chic to clothes. A poor businesswoman, she once told a recorder in bankruptcy that she did not know what a share of stock...