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DIED. Marjabelle Young Stewart, 82, etiquette maven and founder of classes for girls (White Gloves) and boys (Blue Blazers) once offered in 800 U.S. cities; in Kewanee, Ill. Raised in an orphanage and later on an Iowa farm, Stewart married at 17, moved to Washington and became a successful model. She switched careers after co-writing, with Art Buchwald's wife Ann, the lighthearted surprise-hit etiquette tome White Gloves and Party Manners...
...series provides a counterpoint to this antagonism. Each “Nu Zébré” is a variation on the simple but very expressive setup of window blinds cracked open just enough to cast thin stripes of light on a female model. The blinds filter the light in long straight lines, but upon the body each line curves, thickens, and thins in its own unique way. In these slyly minimal photographs, Clergue most creatively celebrates the female form, for which the plain rigidity of the inorganic world is a foil. Here, it is the women...
...designer and technical director of the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club’s production of “Pterodactyls,” a play written by Nicky Silver that opens this Friday at the Loeb Experimental Theatre. Thompson is responsible for the show’s visual centerpiece, a model Tyrannosaurus Rex that is nearly nine feet tall. "First off, you have to build a dinosaur. It has to be big. It has to look like a dinosaur. It has to be constructed throughout the play. It has to be at various stages of completion throughout the play. At times...
French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin wasn't too happy when his 20-year-old daughter Marie packed in her college studies to become a model. Luckily for Mlle Steiss (the pseudonym Villepin uses to conceal her political pedigree), the gamble soon paid off. She is the new face of Givenchy perfume and her billboard campaign hits the U.S. in April. And she's not the only prime ministerial offspring to choose a more glamorous route to success than politics...
...that it exercised on the poet Rainer Maria Rilke at the Paris Salon in 1907. "The knowledge of its existence has transformed into an elation that I feel even in my sleep," Rilke wrote to his wife. The subject of the painting is Hortense Fiquet, Cézanne's model, who had a long secret relationship with him before becoming his wife. Another first lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, chose the watery landscape House on the Marne (1888-90) to hang in the Yellow Oval Room, used to greet heads of state visiting the White House...