Word: modishly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Artists Stanley Landsman and Roy Lichtenstein are also devotees of the period. Landsman collects slender "green-ies," a kind of metal figurine usually portraying a modish nymphet in an affected pose, which were popular as a decoration atop the family radio console. In his current show at Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum, Lichtenstein displays a series of what he calls "modern sculptures," whose source he proudly admits is his own extensive library of Art Deco. Done in sleek brass, they look as if they should be holding back the crowds at Radio City Music Hall. Another indication...
...sometimes pompous affair has thus each year become more and more a distributors' proving ground. Oddly enough, the attitude of the festival's sponsors doesn't seem to affect the quality of the films. A few are first-rate; many more are mannered mediocrities indicative of modish trends (fragmentation of narrative, alienation effects), rather than genuine worth. A few notable early entries...
Except for Hill, whose blond good looks, shaggy hair and modish clothes could easily mark him as a jet-setter, there is almost no one else around. It is a sad contrast to his high-rolling days, when prominent clergymen, judges and politicians felt it an honor to be entertained at the home of the mobster known as Joe Bananas. When the Government tried to deport Bonanno in 1954, for instance, among those who testified as character witnesses were the Most Rev. Francis Green, former Congressman Harold Patten and former Arizona Supreme Court Justice Evo DeConcini (the Most Rev. Francis...
...Salvador's ground troops attacked the provincial capital of Nueva Ocotepeque, in Honduras' southwest corner. A brigade commanded by Colonel Mario ("El Diablo") Velázquez Jandres, a hefty green-eyed man who sports modish sideburns, pressed poorly led Honduran units into a narrow defile, then battered them and the town with 75-mm. artillery and mortar fire...
...most eminent law firms. No fewer than four of them have been courting him for months, and none more assiduously than Wyman-Kuchel, the California firm of former Republican Senator Thomas Kuchel. Last week Senior Partner Eugene Wyman himself squired Sanders to lunch at The Bistro, a modish Beverly Hills restaurant. They had hardly looked at the menu when some of Wyman-Ku-chel's more or less celebrated clients just happened to stop by the table for a drink. Before finishing a main course of broiled breaded crab legs, Sanders had a chance to chat with Comedian Milton...