Word: modell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the exhibits were a couple of canvases as sharp and literal as snapshots made in bright sunlight. The curious thing was that Bérard had painted them without models, purely from imagination. When he used a model, as in his portrait of a Parisian torch singer, Mlle. Damia, the literalness disappeared; Mlle. Damia was waxy, unsmiling, delicately pushed out of shape. A few months before he died, Bérard had portrayed himself sitting like a somewhat damp but proud Bacchus on a beach. The painting conveyed the subtlety of his seemingly careless draftsmanship and the atmospheric shimmer...
...repairs (see cut), the Austin covered 11,850 miles in seven days, for an average speed of 70.54 m.p.h. (old record: 68.58 m.p.h.). A few days later, the Austin Motor Co., Ltd., did something U.S. automakers were interested in. It cut prices $1,000 on the record-setting model. The new price: $2,795 with a manually operated top, $180 more with a hydraulically operated...
Autos. For the second time in a year, Buffalo's Playboy Motor Car Corp. hopefully offered a stock issue, for the second time sadly withdrew it. Reason: no sale. At week's end, Playboy, which never got beyond pilot-model production of the small car it had hoped to sell for $1,000, filed to reorganize under the Bankruptcy...
...Kiss in the Dark (Warner) is a daffy romantic comedy apparently intended to prove that 1948 Oscar-winning Jane Wyman (Johnny Belinda) is not really a deaf-mute. It is the romance of Jane, a photographer's model, and David Niven, a wealthy pianist, who owns the Manhattan apartment house where she lives...
...wears immaculate uniforms and strides stiffly through Hollywood-brand operations rooms. Only Van Johnson, amazingly enough, who has a set-up part as the General's cynical aide, can touch the acting of the stage version. The play's wonderful single set has been augmented with shots of model B-17s plowing into picturesque English landscape; when the command decision is finally made, the surprise is less than startling...