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Word: modelled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Evergood's canvas is a New World extension of Hogarth's more modest hymn to feminine vitality, the 18th century Shrimp Girl in London's National Gallery. Where Hogarth suppressed all detail and strong color to concentrate on his model's glowing face, Evergood does the opposite. His girl is no prettier or more sensate-seeming than a doll, with chalky flesh and blaring costume. Yet she dominates her cluttered setting like a new, pagan deity, a personification of summertime on American shores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: BIG SPENDER | 7/25/1955 | See Source »

Married. Clark Gable, 54, durable Hollywood screen lover (Mogambo, Soldier of Fortune); and Kay Williams Spreckels, 37, onetime model and Hollywood starlet turned socialite millionheiress; he for the fifth time (his most recent: British-born Sylvia Hawkes, onetime Lady Ashley, who divorced him in 1952), she for the fourth (her most recent: Sugar Heir Adolph Spreckels Jr., whom she divorced in 1952 after accusing him of beating her with her own slipper); in Minden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 25, 1955 | 7/25/1955 | See Source »

Greetings from Japan. Taking note of Howard's globe-trotting habit, Model Judy Coate draped a lei around his neck (see cut) and the tape was turned on for "Japanese opinion" of Editor Howard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Family Party | 7/18/1955 | See Source »

...always short, always severely compressed. They are often difficult to understand because few people know the key to their secret-Graves's tireless interest in the nature of his goddess. Once this involved premise is grasped (if not accepted) a Graves poem can be seen immediately as a model of disciplined lucidity. There are no "unconscious" ravings to perplex the reader, because Graves despises all "socalled surrealists, impressionists, expressionists and neo-romantics." Such "affections of madness" are, Graves believes, the reason why almost all modern forms of art seem meaningless to the beholder; the creative fire of the Western...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Goddess & the Poet | 7/18/1955 | See Source »

Shape Up. In Los Angeles, Model Bernice Rye, 30, won a divorce after testifying that Husband Ernest Rye, 41, entertained friends by comparing her figure to photographs of his former wife in shorts or bathing suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 18, 1955 | 7/18/1955 | See Source »

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