Word: photographs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...merely wanted a portrait as such," said a pleased Mrs. Block, "I would have had a color photograph taken. But I wanted one of the great artists of this country to do a suggestion of me, which would also be a great painting. I settled on Ivan as one of the outstanding artists in the U.S." Some of Mrs. Block's friends were less pleased. Growled one guest: "Looks like a dead woman...
Hire & Fire. The ex-President savored every moment of the first walk-through rehearsal, insisted on explaining each small detail to the show's regulars, Joan Terrace, 9, of Brooklyn, Jimmy Walsh, 9, of Hillside, N.J., and their adult guide, lanky Sonny Fox, 32. When they came to photographs of military leaders who served under Truman, Fox pointed to the picture of Douglas MacArthur and said: "Sometimes you have to dismiss generals, don't you, Mr. Truman?" "Yep," agreed Truman. "You hire 'em and you fire 'em, just like any other business." The former President pointed...
Gloomily, many Italian moderates concluded that the photograph for which Giovanni Gronchi was waiting was a jolly group shot of the Christian Democrats and Nenni Socialists arm in arm, singing Carry Us Back to Neo-Atlantism...
...rode TO THE RESCUE one day before the Express' deadline. WHAT COULD THE PRINCE HAVE SAID? asked the tabloid Mirror in a seven-column layout. The answer: Nothing. "His conversation with her had ended BEFORE she looked bashful!" trumpeted the Mirror. The Mirror tracked down the photographer who took the one-in-ten-thousand picture, and he confirmed the Mirror's beat. Not only was the Prince not talking to the nurse when the picture was taken, but she was talking to someone else (Queen Ingrid of Denmark), as the uncropped photograph showed...
Despite its iridescent charm and aura of good breeding, the miniature became a lost art with the advent of the cheaper, more accurate, less demanding photograph. In its presence, one expert ruefully noted, the miniature "was like a bird before a snake: it was fascinated-even to the fatal point of imitation-and then it was swallowed...