Word: manikins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year wonder of U.S. art. It took her just that long to paint her way from a fashion illustrator to a top-flight easel painter with a reputation as "one of the very few American women artists who can paint a nude that does not resemble a Bonwit Teller manikin...
...with the idea. Together they set to work. Their plans called for gigantic statues of daddy longlegs with the faces of Greek goddesses and medieval heroines, "a headless woman from the recipe of a surrealist magician of the Middle Ages," perfumed fountains, loudspeakers making moans from the bushes, corpselike manikins with flowing hair trailing in the waters of a pond. Said Mrs. Crosby: "I am doing this enchanted garden as an experiment with the white magic of the Middle Ages. I will use all the modern means of mystification-loud-speakers, electric lights and wires and mechanisms." By last week...
...nominate for manikin of the year - Pierre Laval...