Word: might
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Minnesota, which claimed the largest state-fair art show in the country, gave its first prize in oils to a poster-slick abstraction of a stage set that might have come out of a studio in midtown Manhattan. Iowa's prizewinner (in the '30s Grant Wood once won three firsts in a row) was a somber doorway that could have opened into a house on almost any Main Street in the land. California's winners, hung in a monster open-air cabana over beds of dazzling yellow marigolds, were low-keyed oil portraits with little sunshine...
This passionate effusion was punctuated by the constant, brittle click of a camera. The ecstatic monologuist was Vogue's talented photographer Irving Penn and the woman in white was his model. Well might Penn be ecstatic. In that strange, floodlit world whose heaven is Paris and whose economic life force is the American woman's checkbook, his model was a reigning queen. She was Lisa Fonssagrives, the highest-paid, highest-praised high-fashion model in the business, considered by many of her colleagues the greatest fashion model of all time. Says Photographer Horst Paul Horst, who helped...
...Good Clothes Hanger. Working with a less accomplished model, the photographer might spend hours trying to prod and push her into the proper pose. But not with Lisa. With a dancer's discipline and grace, she responds instantly to the photographer's every direction, almost before it is spoken. Her body (bust and hips 34 in.) is so supple that she can pull in her normally 23-inch waist to 18 inches. She has the gift of mimicry every good model needs, and a keen fashion sense. Once, she appeared 103 times in a single issue...
...somewhat sobering to imagine that just about all of this message that might remain for the contemplation of future ages might be the image of a pretty girl blowing smoke rings through a seductive smile. But it would certainly give posterity a sight...
...from near illiteracy to lead the college literary society; he had decided on a career as a writer when he discovered that his true genius was musical. For Thurs, it was a short step from hymns on the harmonica to composing a fugue for the piano. In short, he might have been voted most likely to succeed had not his wrestling the "Christian system" left him at the end of the book to face life with some unorthodox views...