Word: modell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...granddaughters of the original suffragettes managed to insert a clause into the Civil Rights Act forbidding job discrimination based on sex. But draftable females were less than ecstatic. "Now that would put real meaning into Uncle Sam's saying 'I Want You,' " noted Manhattan Model Mason Susanne Boyd, 23. "The old lecher...
Tatlin's chef-d'oeuvre-a monument to the Third International-was a soaring behemoth of girders that was to be erected over the Neva River in Leningrad. It would have been the world's highest structure. A 22-ft.-high model was displayed in Moscow in 1920 and a new version of it in Paris in 1925. But it was never built. Engineers in Stockholm have reconstructed the model from photographs, complete with four slowly revolving inner structures shaped variously like a pyramid, a hemisphere and two cylinders. Overall, Tatlin's monument looks rather like...
...stepped into an elevator that wasn't there, and the fall broke both his legs. In the course of his six-months' hospitalization he meditated and discovered his true bent. Today he first sketches his ideas on paper, next lays out a full-scale model in string, finally orders the plywood and starts cutting. (His wife Jackie helps with the sanding.) He delights in astonishing architects with his uncanny ability to defy the laws of gravity. "I work very intuitively," he says. "I'm not a mathematician. I start with an illogical idea and try to make...
...Negro children, while running a trucking concern by day and a casino-on-wheels by night. Abbey Lincoln as Ivy is a sweet gal, but for a low-salaried suburban house maid, she sports a wardrobe of high-fashion creations that would bat the false eyelashes of any model from Park Avenue to Paris...
...thoughtful papers that have provoked serious discussion. He gets along better with the press than ever before, al though he is still not exactly chummy with reporters. A "new" Nixon? The next few months will be a better test. Meanwhile, Julius Monk's mummers sing in This Year's Model...