Word: modeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...state that [an] 1859 penny has an "unidentified" Indian on the obverse [TIME, Jan. 19]. If my information is correct, the model was not an Indian but was Sarah Longacre, then twelve years old. Miss Longacre posed for her father, who at that time was Chief Engraver for the Mint...
Stripes for the Nude. For the past 20 years, Sloan has been laboring to invent a new kind of figure painting. Instead of looking out of the window for subjects, he works mostly from the model, six to eight hours a day, in a big, messy hotel studio just north of Greenwich Village. He paints his models traditionally to start with, in tempera and oil glazes to give them a proper glow. Then, as a finishing touch, he adds hundreds of circling red pinstripes, like scratches, to the flesh tones. For Sloan, the pinstripes "clinch the form"; for almost everyone...
...violence, Dartmouth College, the Marshall Plan, Herodotus, New Mexico (from dinosaurs to A-bombs), "Pretty Boy" Floyd, Eastern potentates, bestsellers, babysitting, Eva Perón, the War Assets Administration and Existentialism. Strunsky's skillful use of the telling fact, the apt comparison, the impeccable word made "Topics" a model of the vanishing essay form. Without blushing, his admirers, from Franklin P. Adams to Lin Yutang, compared Strunsky to Addison & Steele and Charles Lamb...
...space is really curved, then the universe must be "finite," of limited (though perhaps expanding) size'. One "model of the universe" (Einstein's) gives the "circumference of space" (the path which a beam of light would cover as it circles around finite space and back to its starting place) as about 300 billion lightyears...
...story: Mrs. Cheveley (Paulette Goddard), a high-flying blackmailer, puts the bite on the most model husband and statesman in turn-of-the-century England. Unless he publicly endorses a flagrant speculation fraud, she will expose the one piece of youthful crookedness upon which his fortune and his career are founded. Sir Robert Chiltern (Hugh Williams) is all the more gruesomely trapped because he deeply loves his wife (Diana Wynyard), a noble but somewhat priggish woman who, he is sure, would cease to love him if he should fail to match her idealization of him. His close friend Lord Goring...