Word: perfectionists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Into the Dustbin. In real life, Bacon is as mysterious as he is on canvas. Keeping one step ahead of the landlord, he has moved about so much that the London art world is never quite sure where he can be found. A compulsive perfectionist, he has always destroyed more of his paintings than he has finished. A few years ago, he would merely dump them into the dustbin, but when he found that light-fingered admirers were rescuing and even selling them (one recently brought $2,800), he began slashing them with a razor. "I usually like a canvas...
...must to all movie stars, the nude scene came to Marilyn Monroe. That long-ago calendar shot when she was 17 was almost forgotten, and MM hardly needed the publicity. But it was really in the script of Something's Got to Give, and perfectionist Director George Cukor said no to the flesh-colored "nude suit" Marilyn wanted to wear. Cukor cleared the set of "all males not actually involved in the production," admonished electricians to "turn around," and Marilyn slipped into the pool like Botticelli's Venus, while cameras whirred. As she paddled around, the chief electrician...
...thousands more have gone into Hartford's researches on graphology. He is forever analyzing the handwriting of business associates and friends, believes that some day it will be possible to predict human behavior through handwriting analysis. "My handwriting," says he modestly, "shows I'm something of a perfectionist." And so he is. At Paradise Island last week, for example, he devoted more than an hour of serious conversation with an aide to the question of whether to charge guests $1.50 or $2 for the use of the tennis courts. Following that, he took on the problem of what...
...perfectionist and tough taskmaster, Szell runs the orchestra like a military unit, refers to his concertmaster as his "chief of staff." Now some 20 members larger than it used to be, the Cleveland Orchestra plays a 40-week season, tours extensively, and rarely faces anything less than a sold-out house. On its European tour in 1957, it astounded audiences and critics, who had never dreamed of such an orchestra "in the wilds of provincial America...
...Guinnesses have an apartment in Manhattan's expensive Waldorf Towers, a villa in Lausanne (with a bowling alley in the basement), a 350-ton yacht that plies the summer Mediterranean, a seven-story house on Paris' Avenue Matignon ("My husband is a perfectionist, and so he would rather build a building than live in an apartment"), a stud farm in Normandy, and a mansion near Palm Beach at Lake Worth, Fla. The Florida property is divided by U.S. Highway A1A, faces the lake on one side and the beach on the other; the two halves are connected...