Word: modeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jackson's associates in TIME-LIFE International are hoping that his experience with a Corgi motorbike, given him by its manufacturer, will not be too typical of forthcoming British-American trade relationships. Jackson took the 65-pound bike (a civilian model of that used by paratroops during the war) out for his first spin, skidded in some loose gravel, fractured his left foot. Rather, they like to dwell on the gift which Jackson received from another enthusiastic Britisher, the morning after his speech at the British Consumer Goods meeting - a case of Scotch whiskey (now selling...
Pants & Stomach. Yellow skullcaps with propellers on top began appearing on the heads of New York and Pennsylvania delegates. A Powers model, carrying a Truman-for-President sign, edged on to the floor in front of the speakers' stand, where she was ogled and photographed. But the delegates listened to the speeches. The hall had taken on a look of purpose...
Landhaven has no "forms" or class "years." Students graduate when progress tests convince the masters that they are ready for college. The boys get only six weeks' vacation each summer; the rest of the school year is broken into three terms, on the English model. Students and masters share the school's housekeeping chores...
...life-size nudes, posturing and prancing on their plaster pedestals, were ready to be crated up for the foundry to be cast into bronze. A rich private cemetery in Falls Church, Va. had ordered the figures for a fountain, and Carl Milles had decided to model them on friends he had known long ago. The friends were all dead, but not to Milles. He had shown them in some pleasant afterworld living happily on forever...
...Mare's best novels, The Return (1910) and Memoirs of a Midget (1921) are model achievements in mixing realism with a profound sense of the strange. His best stories, especially Seaton's Aunt, have been compared with Henry James's classic Turn of the Screw for their shivery revelation of supernatural influences that might be merely states of mind...