Word: musliner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...busy inventing the world's first "happenings." Soon Oldenburg was staging happenings too, and got married to a pretty artists' model, Pat Muschinski. The world of objects-food, toys, bric-a-brac-blazed all around him ia neighborhood stores. Claes started to reproduce them in burlap or muslin dipped in plaster and painted with all the romantic energy of Abstract Expressionism. "I wanted to extend color to three-dimensioned form," he says, "to make paint tangible and edible...
Wissotzky was not the only company that sensed the commercial significance of war and victory. Newspapers, as a result, have been crammed with advertising. Tel Aviv's biggest department store, in a nice bit of understatement at the beginning of the war, advertised sales of "current needs"-muslin cloth to prevent windowpanes from shattering, schoolchildren's identity disks and first-aid kits. For anyone whose automobile had been requisitioned by the army, Hertz Rent A Car had a solution: "Give us a call...
...Fair Lady opens in October, it will hammer into the public consciousness a new appreciation of an old art style that was known in its day as art nouveau-new art. In planning the film's sets and 1,000 period costumes, complete with white lace, pink muslin, and ostrich feathers sprouting from extravagant hats, British Designer Cecil Beaton drew on childhood memories of Edwardian England at the turn of the century. He thereby put the movie right in the current stylistic swim. For a decade the revival of art nouveau has been building in nostalgic museum shows...
Though even blondes bleached their hair for the super-Aryan look, the Nazis frowned on such womanly weapons as alluring clothes and makeup, considered that cotton undershirts and muslin slips were the proper attire for the descendants of breast-plated Valkyries. Their functional ideal was personified by Hitler's dark-blonde mistress, Eva Braun, and like her, it died with Hitler...
...sausages than of the university's scholars, but welcomed Prince Otto von Bismarck, until debts drove him away. In 1787 it turned out Germany's first female Ph.D. -sloe-eyed Dorothea Schlozer, who at 17 overpowered her examiners while decked out in roses and white muslin. By drawing a variety of young Americans, including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Göttingen put a German academic stamp on many U.S. universities...