Word: mono
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Research, too, is an important function. Every man who has the ill-fortune to collapse with mononucleosis (62 in '51) gets Dr. Andrew Contratto's pamphlet on the disease as part of his Stillman reading-matter. Mono was unknown here until twenty years ago when laboratory blood tests began showing a startling breakdown of white blood corpusles, among other things...
...seemed supremely unconcerned. "Plagiarism?" he snorted. "Just my own original method of using images from my dreams and from some souvenir of long ago. I myself will discover hundreds of so-called plagiarisms in my work . . . The cover of my latest book is a collage of Leonardo's Mono, Lisa. I have no less than six paintings strictly derived from Millet's Angelus. Let my enemies gloat . . . To imitate is not important. To be inimitable is most important. I remain one of the greatest living painters...
...name conjures up a heavy-browed, sad, hawk-eyed man, with a straight nose, mouth firm to the point of cruelty, and a flowing silver beard. In contrast to that awesome image of masculine rigor, it also recalls the dark, soft femininity of his most famed creation-the Mono. Lisa. This painting, which hangs in the Louvre, is probably as well known as any in existence-though few admirers pretend to grasp it fully. A portrait of the wife of a Florentine merchant named Francesco del Giocondo, it has been the subject of a towering stack of critical works. Summarizing...
Subtlety & Superiority. One critic who saw nothing strange about the Mono, Lisa was the 16th century's Giorgio Vasari, who praised the painting for its naturalism. "In this head," Vasari wrote, "every peculiarity that could be depicted by the utmost subtlety of the pencil has been faithfully reproduced . . . Mona Lisa was exceedingly beautiful, and while Leonardo was painting her portrait, he took the precaution of keeping someone constantly near her, to ... amuse her, to the end that she might continue cheerful...
Since the Greek for bad is kakos, it is pretty clear that the Greek for today's fashionably mono-buttocked female would be Cacopyge...