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...lost in his delicate brushstrokes - too deep in the trash heap beneath an East Naples underpass - to notice his visitors: a pair of helmetless (and humorless) teenagers, who had quietly rolled in on a moped as the star Chinese painter added touches of color to his latest en plein air work of social neo-realism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fine Art of Garbage | 9/11/2008 | See Source »

...comfort with PDA, New England's puritanical roots must have rubbed off on me. I'll admit I was taken aback at seeing a couple having sex on Avenue Kleber en plein air on their street-facing balcony. For the first couple of weeks in Paris, each time I saw a couple kissing on the street, I was reminded of the morning a man shouted “Excusez moi!” and then “Regardez!” before proceeding to show me something I surely did not want to “regard...

Author: By Rachel L. Pollack | Title: City of (Public) Love | 7/13/2007 | See Source »

...then there's a trendy new bastard sister to the tired tube top. These over the shoulder boulder holders by Max Mara and Plein Sud bare one sun-kissed shoulder for all admiring leches in tow. Try these in citrus colors, such as light lemon and apricot, to heighten winter pallor...

Author: By Candie EE Darling, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Tongue in Sheik | 2/17/2000 | See Source »

Spring is upon us, and rap impresario SEAN ("Puffy") COMBS' sap must be rising. He decided to make love en plein air (but not, interestingly, with the mother of his newborn son). Alas, Combs, who thought he was enjoying the privacy of Donald Trump's Palm Beach, Fla., Mar-a-Lago Club, had strayed onto the sand of the veddy conservative Bath & Tennis Club. A B&T member took offense at the frolicking and sent a club official to stop it; according to the Palm Beach Daily News, an unabashed Puffy blasted the official for "ruining his concentration." A spokeswoman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 27, 1998 | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

...tails, giving their bodies an organic quality as if they originated in the ground. Only one woman's face is discernible and her expression is decidedly vampish, although she is clad in white and set in nature. It is as if Picasso took a prostitute and placed her en plein air. The result is an intimidating woman with an cerie and wary gaze...

Author: By Marco M. Spino, | Title: Hazen Collection Creates Impression | 12/1/1994 | See Source »

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