Word: plump
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...portrait opposite, which has been purchased by the Kress Foundation for Washington's National Gallery, proves the point. Napoleon stands plump and solemn in the white satiny knickers and gold epaulets of a general of the Chasseurs of his own Imperial Guard. He wears dangling on a red ribbon the medal of the Legion of Honor, which he himself instituted. Every detail of the picture shows David's utter and icy control of his medium; the whole shows something more-his red-hot hero worship. For all its artificiality of costume and scene, his picture gives Napoleon...
...show-organized to benefit the Woodstock Artists Welfare Fund and its "Rest Room Building Fund"-drew contributions from dozens of citizens whose reputations, and prices, are sizable. The townspeople paid $25 a ticket to drink to its success and take home a Doris Lee lithograph of plump bathers in a black pool. Four winning ticket holders got a good deal more: their choice of any painting or sculpture in the place. The fortunate four picked Anton Refregier's crisp figure piece, Boy Drying Rope, a lush little still life by Sigmund Menkes, a thickly sketched townscape by Eugene Ludins...
...artist himself is a brisk, cheery little fellow of 57 bearing an amazing resemblance to the dwarf named Doc in Walt Disney's Snow White. Like Doc, he is white-haired, baldpated, plump, restless and has a stammer. His sad brown eyes are partly hidden behind horn-rimmed spectacles. He laughs a lot. His art, of course, seems as out of this world as any hobgoblin...
...cops to start swinging their white batons, and blandly explained: "There is no defensive action that is not offensive in nature." When the Communists resisted, he gave his cops steel helmets, machine guns and tear gas. His weak eyes squinting through a pair of heavy-rimmed dark glasses, plump little Prefect Baylot looked like a clerk, but he used his force and the terrain like a general...
...gallant Vietnamese still tried to inspire defiance. Plump little Dr. Hoang Co Binh, head of the new Committee for the Defense of North Viet Nam, sent loudspeaker cars around the city "to improve the morale of the people" and he pledged himself to raise three new Vietnamese battalions; he also ordered all civil servants to sing the National Anthem every day. "The Viet Minh are not as strong as we have pretended they are," he told the Vietnamese who would listen...