Word: modell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Fernande Olivier, 83, Pablo Picasso's first great love, who met him in Paris in 1903, was his mistress and model for nine years, watching him pass from his Blue Period to rose-toned nudes, which she told about in Picasso and His Friends (1933); in Paris...
...plot remains a model of wicked ingenuity, marooning ten wrongdoers with an anonymous, homicidal host who intends to bring his guests to justice one by one. Properly done, this old-fashioned brand of carnage can hardly miss. The remakers of Indians fail in every impossible way. By shifting the scene from a godforsaken island to an alpine retreat, they are able to engineer a couple of spectacular deaths among the crags, but the mood of boxed-in menace is efficiently destroyed. Held to a laggard pace, such veteran actors as Stanley Holloway, Wilfred Hyde-White and Leo Genn convey...
...trouble with this model," he continued, "is that there is no pluralistic balance of forces--there is no victory and defeat." Furthermore, he added, the model does not acknowledge that the U.S. is an imperialist, power. "We want peace in which the world is safe for the American businessman to do his business everywhere...
Thus Professor Stuart Hughes, the Harvard historian, advised the United States in his book An Approach to Peace to seek "a new model for foreign policy in the experience of Sweden or of Switzerland or even India." He added that he had "toyed" with the idea that the United States should unilaterally declare itself first among the neutrals; but "in reality we do not need to go that far. The events of the next generation will doubtless do it for us." The mission of the American intellectual, as Hughes saw it, was to do what the Asians and Africans...
...shoe of shoes was the one that was almost invisible: a clear plastic model decorated with baubles and bangles that appeared to float on the foot. Launched this week by Yves St. Laurent, who shows 40 pairs, the shoe is the creation of Roger Vivier, 52, Paris master bottier who now designs for nine major Paris couturiers...