Word: pertness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...through his sculptures in particular, nearly all of them totemic busts like Head of a Woman from 1912, that he would arrive at the sign system that he carried back into painting--ovoid heads on elongated Mannerist necks, with the nose a long, sharp fuselage and the mouth a pert slot just below...
...sports-marketing firm in Shanghai. "But in the past couple of years, athletes have been allowed to express themselves as individuals, even promoting brands instead of the state." Indeed, more often than not, the mainland's most popular athletes are now picked by the free market. Liu Xuan, a pert gold medalist at the Games in Sydney, works as a model and starred as a plucky migrant worker in a movie called Far from Home. Fellow gymnast Li Xiaoshuang has recorded an album of pop ditties. Fu Mingxia, the legendary diver who first struck gold as a teddy-bear-carrying...
...Bordeaux Frederic comes across his old jailhouse buddy, Raoul (Yvan Attal), the movie’s most likable character. Raoul agrees to accompany Frederic on his oblivious quest for Viviane, an adventure that introduces some new players to the exploding drama, like the pert schoolgirl Camille (Virginie Leodyen, who’s getting a little old to play these parts). Camille and Professor Kopolski (Jean-Marc Stehle), a brilliant physicist who happens to be Jewish and the object of her undying devotion, are trying to get to England with several jugs of heavy water that could wreak havoc...
...films, which came out about once a month and were shown only to the military, were racier than commercially released cartoons could be: hell and damn in the dialogue, plenty of butt comedy, and mermaids out of Vargas, with large breasts and pert nipples. The films reveal what kind of cartoons the Warner Bros. guys would have made if the Hollywood censor had been a bit more lenient. They also display the Geisel wit in more luxuriant fester. Ted had written a grown-up children's book called "The Seven Lady Godivas" in 1940. Much later, he created...
...make a masterpiece"--which would have come as news to Jackson Pollock, to say nothing of the thundering landscape painter Frederic Edwin Church.) But whatever his merits as a thinker, as an entrepreneur Currin is doing fine. With his wife Rachel Feinstein, a sculptor whose high forehead and pert chin turn up repeatedly in his work, he's a regular on the art-world party scene, working up press coverage and collector interest. Steve Martin buys his work. Two years ago, one of his paintings, Ms. Omni, sold at auction...