Word: modeles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Poet Rainer Maria Rilke, who was once Rodin's secretary, described what his boss was after: "Rodin assumed that if caught quickly, the simple movements of the model . . . contain the strength of an expression which is not surmised, because one is not wont to follow it with intense and constant attention. By not permitting his eyes to leave the model for an instant, and by allowing his quick and trained hand free play over the drawing paper, Rodin seized an enormous number of never before observed and hitherto unrecorded gestures of which the radiating force of expression was immense...
...tuck until the seventh game: first the Red Sox won one, then the Cardinals evened it up (thanks mainly to the pitching of Harry Brecheen). Baseball 1946 was still no postwar model...
...Eversharp, Inc., which has shot up from a near bankrupt company to the biggest pen & pencilmaker in the world, dollarwise, last week tried a new trick. It brought out a new ball pen, with a retractable point, to sell for $25 plus tax, ten dollars more than its present model...
...crammed the old Y with every available member, took the ' board on a tour. After squeezing through groups of sweaty athletes and dodging medicine balls, the board gave in. Dr. Studer raised $400,000, built a ten-story building (now Detroit's downtown Y), which became the model for Y.M.C.A. buildings all over...
While other planemakers raced to produce cheaper planes for a wider market, soft-spoken Leroy Grumman galloped off in the other direction. This week his Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. announced its postwar commercial model, the Mallard, an eight-to-ten-passenger amphibian with lush-plush custom-tailored interior. Price: $100,000 & up (depending on the interior arrangement selected...