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...balance of exports is heavily in favor of the U.S., which is flooding the world market with superb teeth, great bones and fresh skin. More than 60% of the top models working in Paris, Hamburg and Munich are American. A high proportion of the models on the runways and in the photographic studios of Milan's fashion industry are from the U.S. Japanese talent scouts are so avid for fresh faces that they hang around schoolyards hoping to lure pretty young Americans and other gaijins (foreigners) into the model industry; the proper International School of the Sacred Heart in Tokyo...
After a stay in Munich or Hamburg, these impregnable Yanks move on, and none too soon, to the softening influences of Milan and Paris. Here the pace of business in photographers' studios seems lackadaisical; great blocks of hours crumble and disappear as assistants putter and the photographer unconcernedly takes his ease. There are still some in the business who have not learned about promptness. Yet business is the wrong word; what is going on in a French or Italian studio is the creation of art, and art must not be hurried. (The French and Italian editions of Vogue are rich...
...received the lightest sentence: ten years. Released from Spandau prison in 1956, he retreated into obscurity, seeing only occasional visitors. Some West Germans felt last week that Dönitz, dying so long after the Nazi era, should have been suitably honored for his naval career. Others disagreed. Said Munich's Süddeutsche Zeitung in an editorial: "A line should be clearly and properly drawn between today's navy and Hitler's, between today's Federal Republic and the sinking Third Reich over which Dönitz presided in its final days...
...fled to Europe. "Everything had collapsed, and it was of my own choosing in a way, but it didn't make it easier," she says. She decided to seek out in Munich a famous avant-garde teacher named Hans Hofmann-the same artist who, a year later, would emigrate to America and play a formative role in the ideas and practice of abstract expressionism. It was Hofmann who made her look at cubism, "the key to my stability ... Positive and negative. A block of space for light. A block of space for shadow. Light and shade...
...still unfocused and drifted around Europe, doing a little film acting in Vienna and Munich, visiting museums. After coming home, she returned the next year to Paris "to really study." On the boat she had an improbable involvement with the bitterly anti-Semitic French novelist Louis-Ferdinand Céline, who, she says, wanted to marry her. ("Don't you know that fanatics, if they hate Jews, love to marry Jewish women?") It was from this trip that she came back fully determined to be a professional. Nevelson enrolled at the Art Students League, joined the Mexican muralist Diego...