Word: modeles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Artificial arms & legs are still in the Model T era; changes come slowly, are often mere tinkering. But last week the Veterans Administration had good news of a sort for the 17,000 World War II amputees. It had approved a new arm & leg which embodies some useful improvements. They were produced, oddly, not by limb experts but by an aviation company, Northrop Aircraft...
General Polly, who modestly estimates that the project would cost $190 million, wants to model the new capital-to be called Brasilia-after Washington, D.C. For scoffers, the General has two reminders : 1) 41 years ago Brazilian dreamers planned the model city which is today the lively, bustling reality of Bello Horizonte; 2) Golánia, the model capital of the state of Goiaz, was only a gleam in a city planner's eye five years...
Winner Hawks, 26, who used to model for fun and now for fun hunts game with sportsmen like Clark Gable and Ernest Hemingway (see col. 3), thought it was "awfully nice" to get picked, offered a partial explanation of her success: "I have a tall, skinny frame that clothes look well on." She wears no hats. She's a "great believer in simplicity in clothes," she said, and figured that in '46 she spent about one-fourth as much on her wardrobe as any of the other best-dressed-at the most, $10,000 (not counting furs...
Samuel Marshak's Twelve Months is the only surprise package in the book-and the best. Author Marshak is a translator of Wordsworth, Blake, Keats, Shakespeare, Burns, and his new play is a lyrical fantasy on the old Christmas pantomime model, complete with the wicked old woman, Cinderella-girl, a young queen, talking animals and magic wands. Twelve Months does nothing to establish a new tradition, but it does add charm and poetry to a very...
Delvaux, 49, who really does look like Keaton (and poses before a mirror as his own model), lives and works in solid comfort on Brussels' conservative Rue d'Ecosse. He is a dreamer who reads little, belongs to no church, no political party. The tables and cupboards in his studio are cluttered with seven human skulls, and the walls are banked with huge, infinitely complicated paintings. (A recent one, called Unrest in the City, includes some 1,200 figures.) Says he: "I work patiently and minutely like the Flemish primitives, Van Eyck and Memling." He paints on plywood...