Word: modeles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lusty and busty, steatopygous and sinful, Kiki swung along her Paphian way from scullery maid to artists' model to become one of Montparnasse's topflight nightclub entertainers. The artists who immortalized Kiki's curves in oil and marble sometimes forgot to pay her, and Kiki never cared. Unconcerned, she tramped the streets in a threadbare overcoat and man's hat and some artist's castoff shoes. Later, in fancier finery, Kiki lounged in the wicker chairs at the Cafe du Dome or sang in her Pernod-husky voice ("I could never sing...
...Gallic syllables like Mexican hot tamales. When he rendered Gromyko's cumbersome title, Représentant de I'Union des Républiques Socialistes Soviétiques, it shortened to le représ . . . tant de Union . . . tique. But at tense moments the versatile Mexican was a model of taciturn tact...
Shucks. In Manhattan, when Actress Eve Arden announced breathlessly that she would model a dress exposing her popliteal fossa, photographers came running, found themselves taking pictures of the back of her knees...
...believes that belief in immortality can be freed from "popular or philosophic errors" and yet preserve "the wisdom of the Catholic doctrine of the soul, its moral and spiritual soundness, with the idea of Christ for its model...
...lamp did some startling tricks. The shadows it cast across a 40-ft. room had sharp, un-fuzzed edges. When the smallest model using only two watts of current was held behind a color film the size of a postage stamp, it projected a clear, sharp "shadow picture" as big as a telephone book. When used in an ordinary photographic enlarger, it made monstrous enlargements of startling clarity...