Word: modeles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tampa, Fla., to push Julia Misbehaves, a model took a bubble bath in a store window...
Chichi aristocrats and ragged mountain peasants alike chattered excitedly about the model town of Belladère, on the Dominican border. At a cost of some $600,000, government architects and engineers had transformed it from a cluster of thatched huts, huddled beside a dirt road, into a glistening modern village. To feed it, Estime had cut roads through the fertile mountains around Belladère, organized collective farms, and told the peasants that the government would provide five carreaux (16 acres) of land, with tools and seed, for each family who would work the land...
...early if I want to paint," Kuhn says. "When I come up here and start in, the weather's gotta be right, I gotta feel right, and the model's gotta feel right, too. I don't do much work from sketches, because unless the thing is there in front of you, you can't get the discipline. But don't get me wrong, I'm not a realist; painting is not that easy, it's not copying. Why, if I do one good picture in a year I'm tickled...
...Tallulah got to England, and became an immediate sensation. As a cigarette-smoking, short-skirted vamp, she was a hit in her first play. The part she played set the style for a series of underdressed, sexy roles, including a drunk flapper, a chorus girl, an artist's model, a trollop, and a few unfaithful wives. (She also found time to play Camille...
Fifty years ago chances are you would have left the field with a black eye; now you're satisfied with a popsicle. This is a classic with modernized, 1948-model color. Once it featured mustache cups and megaphones, raccoon coasts and pearl-handled umbrellas. Now it's got television, and Dixle Belle, and martinis--chilled--complete to the onion...